Leif Salmén
Leif Henry Salmén was a Finnish author, journalist and poet.His parents were pharmacists Ture Salmen and Raili Brotell.
Career
Between 1966 and 1971, Salmén worked various jobs, including as an office clerk and as a port, metal and sawmill worker. Salmén studied at Helsinki University with philosophy as his major between 1971 and 1976. During this period, he also began his media career, working as a freelance journalist from 1969 to 1976, for the Finnish News Agency from 1973 to 1975, and as a production manager at Lilla Teatern in 1975. He was a member of the Communist Party of Finland from the 1970s until mid-1980s. Salmén was a Taistoist.Salmén was a TV journalist working for Yleisradio from 1976 to 1989. He worked for the Swedish-language news service TV-Nytt from 1978 and became a political journalist in 1980.He was among the best-known media personalities in Finland in the 1980s because of his rapid-fire interviews and uncompromised grilling of politicians and the elite.
After that Salmén worked as a columnist, essayist and a poet. Several of his books were translated into Finnish. Among other honours, Salmén received the Eino Leino Prize in 2013.