The Song of the Blood-Red Flower (Finnish: Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta) is a romance novel by Finnish writer Johannes Linnankoski, published in 1905; and is considered the author's most famous and personal work. Loosely based on the legend of Don Juan, it tells the story of a young-maid-charming log driver. It was awarded the State Prize for Literature in 1906, and was also given an award by the Finnish Literature Society. An English version was first published in 1921 by Moffat, Yard & Co in New York, with W. J. Alexander Worster as translator.There are five film adaptations of the story (three Swedish and two Finnish); the earliest is the Swedish silent film The Flame of Life from 1919, directed by Mauritz Stiller, and the latest is the 1971 Finnish film adaptation directed by Mikko Niskanen, which is also the only color film version. A huge number of stage plays have also been made based on the novel, such as H. Välisalmi's play by the Estonian Drama Theatre in 1938, and three Finnish plays at the Pyynikki Summer Theatre, Tampere in 1960, 1981 and 2005. Source: Wikipedia (en)