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Benedict Zilliacus

Emil Benedict Zilliacus (January 11, 1921 – January 28, 2013) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish journalist, author, scriptwriter and translator.

Zilliacus was born in Helsinki, Finland. He graduated from Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors in 1939 and studied at the University of Helsinki from 1945 to 1948. From 1948 to 1982, he worked as a journalist and columnist for the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he wrote a revue for the Swedish theater Lilla Teatern in Helsinki every other year, or sometimes more often; the show became very popular. In addition to revues, he also wrote plays and musicals, and his books dealt with subjects including industrial arts, Helsinki, and the archipelago.

He was a board member of the Finland's Swedish Dramatists' Association (Finlands svenska dramatikerförbund) from 1965 to 1969. He wrote screenplays for many movies, including Etulinjan edessä (Beyond the Front Line), which he wrote together with Stefan Forss, and Tali-Ihantala, which he wrote with Stefan Forss and .

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  • Tom-Tom och djuren (1950, with illustrations by Henrik Tikkanen)
  • Bilderbok för stora barn (1951, with illustrations by Henrik Tikkanen)
  • Vi ser pÃ¥ Helsingfors (1952, with drawings by Henrik Tikkanen)
  • Finnish designers (1954)
  • UppÃ¥t väggarna (1955-57, revue)
  • Lite i rödluvan (1956-57, revue)
  • Nukkumatti (1957-58, revue)
  • Rollen Peter Berg (1958-59, revue)
  • Ö (1958-59, revue)
  • My Fair Lad (1959-60, revue)
  • Mera i rödluvan (1960-61, revue)
  • Konsthantverk och konstindustri i Norden (1961, editor with H.O. Gummerus)
  • Säteri. Valkeakoski, Suomi (1961, text by Zilliacus, photographs by Jörgen Vorberg)
  • Guldbröllop (1961-62, revue)
  • Korsetten (1962, graphic design by Timo Sarpaneva)
  • Ättan (1964, revue)
  • Ro, ro (1966-67, revue, with Erna Tauro and Vivica Bandler)
  • Wärtsilä (1967)
  • Sex Ã¥rtionden i pressbilder (1971) (with )
  • Helsinki elää. Helsingfors lever (1971, photographs by Volker von Bonin)
  • Utöar (1975, drawings by Henrik Tikkanen)
  • Öar, holmar och skär (1977, with Matti Hälli and Stig Jaatinen)
  • 100 klipp ur vÃ¥r dagbok (1977, with Per-Olof Nyström)
  • Stadin kundi (1979, revue, with HÃ¥kan Pörtfors)
  • Wihelm Wahlforss (1984)
  • Bergets skugga (1987)
  • BÃ¥ten i vassen (1990)
  • Förlorat och bevarat (1996)

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