Kilpi's most important literary work was written during his years in Turku, near his family roots. He worked for more than twenty years at the University of Helsinki Library and other libraries in Helsinki before moving to Turku, where he became first a librarian at that city's municipal library, later, in November 1920, the first librarian of Turku's Finnish-language university. An avid reader, he studied at the University of Helsinki. He was the older brother of stage and film actor Eero Kilpi. Kilpi was born and brought up in Kustavi, in Finland's western archipelago, and attended a private Finnish-language grammar school in Turku. Kilpi has been considered an exponent of the modern experimental novel. Volter Kilpi, born Volter Ericsson, (Decem– June 13, 1939) was a Finnish author best known for his two-volume novel Alastalon salissa (1933), often considered one of the best written in the Finnish language.
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