Conversations

Latest articles in the Conversations category

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Mathura and Gili Haimovich
ELM 1/2023
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Gili Haimovich and Mathura first met at a poetry festival in Romania seven years ago and have since enjoyed a long-standing collaborat...

Portraits

Latest articles in the Portraits category

Kairi Look: An Author Who Treads Boundaries

by Annika A. Koppel
ELM 2/2023
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Kairi Look’s first children’s book, Ville the Lemur Flies the Coop, was published in 2012. The author herself could very well be that lemu...

The Book That is a Beast of its Own

by Andrei Liimets
ELM 1/2023
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Pâté of the Apes by Tõnis Tootsen (b. 1988) is the story of Ergo, the first ape who has learned to write. As the title suggests, the s...

Reflections

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Who Could Hold All the World’s Beauty?

by Joonas Hellerma
ELM 2/2023
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The reception of Emil Tode’s Border State (1993) was shaped by multiple elements that were novel to Estonian literature of the time, i...

A Night to Remember

by Maximilian Murmann
ELM 1/2023
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On New Year’s Eve a man straggles his way through Stockholm. Although he has been living in the city for quite some time, the narrator...

Book reviews

Latest articles in the book reviews category

Viivi Luik
The Golden Crown

by Aija Sakova
ELM 2/2023
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Viivi Luik is undoubtedly one of the most important and internationally renowned authors of Estonian literature. Enchanting Estonian reader...

Gunnar Neeme
Windsure

by Janika Kronberg
ELM 2/2023
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Gunnar Neeme (1918–2005) lived most of his life in Australia and achieved international recognition as an artist. He published two ...

Liis Sein
Mona's Dad Has Some Ideas

by Kairi Look
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Liis Sein began her writing career with plays that have been both staged, and awarded in playwriting competitions. She also co-wrote the sc...