death_date death_place years_active birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
19 april 1922 helsinki , finland 1908 -- 1922 tampere , grand duchy of finland finland 4 march 1878 kaarlo uskela.jpg kaarlo uskela
 kaarlo uskela poet , writer , typesetter
kaarlo uskela

kaarlo uskela , born 4 march 1878 in tampere , died 19 april 1922 in helsinki , was a finnish satiric author , poet and anarchist .
uskela is best known of his 1921 anthology `` pillastunut runohepo '' which was banned in 1933 , eleven years after uskela 's death .
uskela was born into a working-class family in tampere and worked as a typesetter for several newspapers .
from 1900 to 1907 uskela lived in sweden where he became interested in anarchism .
after returning to finland , uskela earned his living as a writer .
he wrote columns , short stories and causeries for left-wing newspapers and magazines .
uskela was known as a satirical writer , he was making fun of almost everything , the government , church and bourgeoisie and even the labor movement itself .
after the 1918 finnish civil war uskela was sent to the notorious tammisaari prison camp for several months , although he was not a member of the red guards and did not take part on the war .
during his imprisonment , uskela wrote a collection of poems which were released in his 1921 anthology `` pillastunut runohepo '' .
uskela 's last literal work was the posthumous `` vainovuosilta '' -lrb- 1923 -rrb- , a non-satirical anthology of short stories about finnish civil war .
uskela died of sepsis at the age of 44 .
he had a dental caries , but uskela refused to see the dentist and treated it by himself .
the result was a fatal sepsis .
in 1933 , during the right-wing period in finnish politics , the unsold copies of uskela 's anthology `` pillastunut runohepo '' were confiscated and burned by a court order .
it is the only book finnish authorities have ever destroyed .
uskela 's poetry was accused of atheist views and anti-church elements , but they were also described as ″ revolutionary and violent ″ .
this was not the first time his works were banned , before the independence of finland in 1918 almost all of uskela 's books were confiscated by the russian authorities .
