Finland 2 euro commemorative coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Birth of Vaino Linna. Väinö Linna (1920 – 1992) was a Finnish author. He gained literary fame with his third novel, Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy Täällä Pohjantähden alla (Under the North Star), published in 1959–1963 and translated into English by Richard Impola.