Career
Her writing is especially remembered for the Lohja tetralogy which depicted strong women. Described as a "productive novelist of monomaniacal intensity", she occasionally wrote under the pseudonyms of Eeva Helle and Eeva Autere. Joenpelto was President of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Finland in 1964-1967 and worked as an art professor from 1980-1985.
