Henry Parland was a Finnish-Swedish poet, novelist and cultural journalist (mainly in Swedish press of Finland). Swedish is sometimes described merely as Parlands fourth language, after German, Russian and Finnish . His style and choice of words seems peculiar and the lyrics contain some completely unique words. During the years in Helsinki wrote Parland mainly poetry. The friend Gunnar Björling helped him with stylistics and spelling. For Henry Parlands most notable works include the novel decomposition.