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JONAS TAULÖömõttedA Serious ThoughtPublished by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 202064 pages
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Author archives: zoneplus
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Nähtamatu Ahv 2019, 120 pp.ISBN 9789949013357
Maarja Kangro holds an unshakeable position on the Estonian literary scene. Her poetry, pr...
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Tallinn: Paradiis, 2019. 182 pp.ISBN 9789949741212Peedu Saar’s Veronicas is a dreamily sentimental romance that reads as ...
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Häämaa 2020, 93 pp.ISBN 9789949016594
Emotional Upbringing: Japanese Death Poems is Tõnis Vilu’s seventh poetry collection. On his blog,...
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EKSA, 2019. 296 pp.EAN 9789949684045
The Horned Blue Beast (2019) is the fifth novel by Andrus Kivirähk – a satirist, incredibly prolifi...
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Koolibri 2020, 40 ppISBN 9789985043738
Gerda Märtens, one of the most unique and fascinating illustrators in Estonian children’s lite...
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Tuum, 216 pp.ISBN 9789949743308
Kärt Hellerma’s collection Koidula’s Hand contains ten dissimilar short stories, the characters of which...
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Puiestee, 2018. 302 pp.ISBN 9789949728220
Sad Little Autumn, by Mait Vaik, who is best known in Estonia as a musician,...
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Illustrated by Ulla Saar.Tänapäev, 2019. 142 pp.EAN 9789949856473
Kairi Look has thoroughly proven herself in the field of Estonian chil...
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Leo
We had nothing left.
It had been that way for some time alread...
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Martin Algus (b. 1973) is known foremost as an actor, dramatist, and screenwriter. He has authored award-winning plays for over a decade an...
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Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki is a devoted translator of Estonian literature into her native Polish. Among other authors, she has translated wor...
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maidens shipwrecks final judgement dayshave been no strangers the last thirty yearsI was one of those jacks of all trades toopart alcoholic...
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From the collection Just About Love
Girls’ toys
These girls have no mothers;the mothers are with the boys.With the brothers who can n...
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Elo Viiding’s debut poetry collection Telg (Axis) was released in 1990; her fifteenth and latest collection Ainult armastusest (Just Ab...
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p. 12
ON SPACES
Sometimes it seems like everything begins with departures. That not distances, but spaces, are what matters. Thei...
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Carolina Pihelgas’s books usually appear quietly, without fuss or commotion, at moderate intervals, and blossom into thrilling experiences ...
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Joonas Sildre’s graphic novel Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language was published in Estonian in the autumn of 20...
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Man has the mind of an animal. Inside, he fails spectacularly to draw a line between a little fun and the misery of lifelong rearing and re...
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Mudlum (Made Luiga) is a rising star on the Estonian literary scene. She made her debut in 2014 with the short-story collection Tõsine inim...
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There lived a man who was in the habit of saying: “Be what may, but may there be order at home!” The man believed that people were created ...
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It isn’t a stretch to assert that literature is an art of solitude. This especially true in comparison with other creative practices: many ...
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EU Prize for Literature Laureate 2020
To write about one of the most distinctive and vibrant cultural groups to emerge in Estonia in rec...
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I could recounthow curacao’s longest bridge is called“our swinging old lady”and passing over the bayyou sure don’t surpass yourselfbut ...
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David Vseviov is a popular historian in Estonia – students know him as an erudite professor, while the general public knows him as an enter...
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Karl Martin Sinijärv (b. 1971) made his debut in Estonian literature with the poetry collection Threecircle in 1989. Silvia Urgas’s debut i...
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Postimees Kirjastus 2019, 272 ppISBN 9789949669653
Eia Uus’s new novel, What It Feels Like for a Girl, could be catalogued in the “leisu...
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Ärkel 2019, 184 pp9789949727223
Jaanus Vaiksoo’s Shoe #39 tells the story of 11-year-old Paul, who skips school for the first time in hi...
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Vihmakass ja kakerdaja 2019, 320 ppISBN 9789949997763
The title page of Kaur Riismaa’s Little Ferdinand includes a promise: “The charact...
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Tänapäev 2019, 64 pp. ISBN 9789949856268
The outstanding Estonian animated film director Priit Pärn needs no long introduction. His film...
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Lepp ja Nagel 2019, 232 ppISBN 9789789949014
Paavo Matsin’s new novel is a treat for the author’s long-time fans. The story is fast-pace...
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Näo Kirik 2019, 112 ppISBN 9789949723096
Asko Künnap is an orchestra of a man: he is a designer, artist, creative advertiser, translator...
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Vihmakass ja kakerdaja 2019, 65 ppISBN 9789949997732
Øyvind Rangøy is a Norwegian poet whose life is tightly entwined with Estonia. His ...
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Verb 2019, 128 ppISBN 9789949723867It’s not exactly common for poetry’s charisma to be so great that it reshapes even the most formal and u...
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Päike ja Pilv 2019, 36 ppISBN 9789949737635
Piret Jaaks and Marju Tammik’s picture book Mommy’s Dragon may be a treat for little booklov...
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Tänapäev 2019, 208 ppISBN 9789949856206
According to the text on the back cover of Piret Raud’s novel The Garden of Devil’s Milks, this ...
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Varrak 2019, 536 ppISBN 9789985347126
Homo viator, the travelling man, is one of the defining figures of our times, and Tallinn-based w...
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“Hello, balloon!” Oscar spoke into his mobile. “Can you hear me?”
“Why shouldn’t I?” a somewhat nasally voice immediately replied. “I’m...
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Novels, novellas, plays, opinion pieces, and radio programs – Andrus Kivirähk is so active in so many different creative fields that it is ...
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A speech by Mati Sirkel on Jaan Kross’s 80th birthday celebration at the Estonian Drama Theater, 2000Honorable Jaan!If you would allow me t...
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Kätlin Kaldmaa is a universal literary figure who does – and achieves – many things. She is an award-winning poet, a prose writer, children...
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Six of Jaan Kross’s novels have been translated into Dutch. The first to be published were The Tsar’s Madman (translated by Roland Jonkers ...
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Piret Jaaks is a freelance playwright and dramaturge who, in addition to writing plays, has also penned short prose, children’s books, film...
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WEEK ONE. DAY ONE.May 27, 1949When Aunt Mari (as she was called by some of her younger Estonian colleagues) was approaching the maternity w...
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A very long time ago, so long now that it came as a great surprise even to myself, Piret Viires and I were the original editors of Estonian...
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When Estonia gained independence in 1918, one of the first tasks of the new state was to tell the rest of the world that it exists. Diploma...
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ChineseTitle “Tantsisklevail lehtedel ta keerleb”Title * 喚發舞動之樹葉 : 五十四首描繪香港風景的俳 (Estonian: Chinese)Author MathuraGenre P...
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From the “Writers with Writers” seriesTallinn; Hea Lugu, 2018. 158 pp. ISBN 9789949634538
In 2018, the Hea
Lugu publishing house launc...
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Loomingu Raamatukogu 2019, nr 6-9EAN 3220000004467
Urmas
Vadi’s The Ballet Master is an absurdist satire of nationalist politics
written...
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Koolibri 2018, 32 pp. ISBN 9789985041383
Whether or not something is art can be debated ad infinitum. Oftentimes, you hear people loudl...
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Varrak 2018, 179 ppISBN 9789985344507
Martin Algus’s novel Something Real, which received the
Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s 2019 Awar...
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Kaksikhammas 2018, 92 pp. ISBN 9789949999125
Hasso Krull’s poetry collection Euroopa (Europe) becomes steadily denser, more bo...
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Illustrated by the authorTänapäev 2017, 116pp.ISBN 9789949852314
The narrator of Raud’s All My Relatives, a boy named Adam, is far fr...
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Paris (Twenty-five years later) EKSA 2019, 176 pp. ISBN 9789949604876 Aaker (Muskoka, Ontario, CA) EKSA 2019, 389 pp. ISBN 97899...
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Elusamus 2019, 72 pp.ISBN 9789949735013
The role of nature in poetry has,
foremost, traditionally been ornamental, atmospheric, or me...
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I realized I was
very far from home on the very first morning there, in a suburb of Toronto,
when I woke up (which had happened several tim...
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Peeling seconds
my coat and boots
are left dancing hollowly
when drunks sway on the highways
and the woods have dried up
...
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Andres Allan Ellmann (1964-1988) was one of the very few mystical poets in post-war Estonian poetry. I think it was in his blood – his moth...
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V: Have you felt great reverence at least once in your life?
T: I have no idea what great reverence is. Whenever anyone talks about the ...
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A perfect day naturally begins early in the morning. That is my time! I hope I never learn to sleep in! I’d never exchange the promisin...
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Anti Saar (1980) is one of the most interesting and distinctive members of the younger generation of Estonian children’s writers. After gra...
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Meelis, the plot of one of your most memorable works,
your novel The Bees, is set during
the Little Ice Age when local population numbers p...
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The year 2019 looms large in Estonia’s cultural calendar, marking the 150th anniversary of the Estonian Song and Dance Celebration. Its imp...
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Allan
Cameron is a Scottish writer, translator and publisher who lives in Glasgow. He
has already published several books of Estonian liter...
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Birgita Bonde Hansen has translated eight books from Estonian and over forty from Finnish into her native Danish. Her dedicated work has no...
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Jaan Kross first came to prominence in the English-speaking world in 1992 with the publication of The Czar’s Madman (Keisri Hull), translat...
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EWOD (the Estonian Writers’ Online Dictionary) is a lexicon and database compiled by literary researchers at the University of Tartu, ...
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Swedish author Sara Stridsberg’s novel The Gravity of Love (2014), which received the EU prize for literature, really is a book to remember...
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Eda Ahi is a poet whose sharp words, impeccable sense of rhythm, and rich imagery has captivated readers since her very first collection. M...
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2018, 88 pp.ISBN 9789949888399
Kristiina Ehin’s eighth and latest work But Love Has a Forest Bird’s Heart is a collection of poems writt...
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Fabian, 2018. 192 pp.ISBN 9789949933686
Mihkel Mutt’s collection of short prose All is Well, published in late 2018, is a follow-up to h...
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Verb, 2018. 96 pp.ISBN 9789949723812Mehis Heinsaar’s baroquely fantastical world of writing no longer needs a greater introduction for Esto...
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Hunt, 2018. 224 pp.ISBN 9789949731909
Occasionally, people speak in alarm about how the digital age has sentenced ‘cherished old book cu...
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Nähtamatu Ahv, 2018. 336 pp.ISBN 9789949886623Writing about literature is always rife with dangers. One pitfall is that the author ends up ...
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Salv, 2018. 192 pp.ISBN 9789949887408
Rein Raud is an author riveted by society. In addition to writing prose, poetry, and drama, he is ...
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FD Distribution, 2018. 144 pp.ISBN 9789949724802
For anyone expecting to find Andrus Kivirähk’s usual mischievous humor imbedded with im...
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Päike ja Pilv 2018. 32 ppISBN 9789949728527
Growing up is a big adventure and a challenge, especially when you’re a seven-year-old b...
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In October of last year, Finland’s oldest annual book fair brought together a total of 700 performers, 500 book releases, hundreds of stand...
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This time Marius moved with utmost care and memorised exactly where he’d come from. He no longer had any intention of dozing off or meeting...
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Danutė Sirijos Giraitė has been translating Estonian literature into Lithuanian for over 40 years, with a list of titles that spans prose, ...
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Not everyone can sufficiently appreciate literary competitions and their effect on the rise of future writers. Such contests are often seen...
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Once, a mistake was made, and the mistake was violenceEven afterward, people were born (poor ones?)who adapted to the mistake and lived inn...
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(Tuum, 2018)
OH SUN OH LIGHT OH DUST
I
this could be rum’s dialogue and quotation marks
but that woman I saw in the woods yeste...
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Kristjan Haljak is a poet, translator, and instructor of literature. Haljak has occasionally been called a Decadent (no matter whether seri...
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The object of this guide is to supply curious readers, who are possibly also travellers in the country, with some information about the lan...
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We attack from three sides at once. From the south where the moat is now the shallowest and it’s possible to nudge the siege tower up to th...
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Places of writing can be divided into two: those where writing is possible in general, and those that have a direct connection to the subje...
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(Verb, 2018)
Obolon
Obolon’s raspberries.
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This year, the Lyrikline.org poetry portal, which was founded in Berlin in 1999, will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Running the site is t...
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Eduard Vilde (1865-1933) was the first Estonian prose writer to achieve classic status, and he has thereby come to be regarded as the most ...
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Diplomacy and literature, or fine arts in general, can be viewed as the opposing spheres of human activities. In everyday language, diploma...
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in the clear winter night there’s
one window still light,
behind it
a grown man curses his
slow computer.
that man is me...
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Siret Campbell, Beatrice
Siret Campbell, 2018. 60 pp
ISBN 9789949880256
(also available in English: ISBN: 9789949886517)
Near-future sc...
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Triinu Meres, Lihtsad valikud (Simple Choices)
Varrak, 2017. 272 pp
and
Kuningate tagasitulek (The Return of the Kings)
Orpheuse Raamatu...
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If ever there was a fitting location for a first-of-its-kind showcase of Estonian literature and culture in the Anglophone world, it was the...
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Leelo Tungal, Seltsimees laps (Comrade Kid)
Tänapäev, 2018. 512 pp
ISBN 9789949853076
Leelo Tungal’s Comrade Kid trilogy – Co...
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Vahur Afanasjev is a multifaceted man who has written poetry as well as prose, produced films, performed music, and dabbled in many other cr...
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"A Perfect Day" is a new ELM column, in which individuals associated with literature in Estonia share their recipes for a perfect day. The f...