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His novel Servant of the Soldier God (Sõdurjumala teener) earned Major Leo Kunnas (34) the second place award at the novel competition ...
Author archives: Annika
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Only a few months ago, the prestigious National Geographical Society in Washington, D. C. published a coffee table book: "Peoples of th...
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Can literature save the world? Yes, it is busy with saving-work. It does the work together with allies – other fine arts are the nearest am...
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1. Beauty and uglinessThe literary work of August Gailit (1891-1960) has fascinated readers of different generations throughout the twen...
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by Maima Grīnberga
In terms of the number of active translators, translated Estonian authors and the availability of information, the si...
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The name Rein Sepp (1921-1995) in Estonian culture is above all associated with translations of a number of imposing works of literature. P...
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The collection Tuulelaeval valgusest on aerud – Windship with Oars of Light, subtitled Estonian Modern Poetry, brings together poetry writt...
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Between 15 and 19 April 2001, translators of Estonian literature from all over the world gathered in Käsmu. The seminar was organised by t...
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Timo Maran, Kadri Tüür You look at the lake, and the lake looks at you through ...
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Kerttu WagnerDie historischen Romane von Jaan KrossAm Beispiel einer Untersuchung der deutschen und englischen Übersetzungen von Profes...
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Taking a closer look at cultures of different countries, we often discover similar positions. People occupying those positions fulfil more...
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Jüri Ehlvest is one of the most original Estonian prose authors of the 1990s, and also most difficult to interpret. The critics have been i...
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The marriage of Aino and Oskar Kallas – a Finnish bridge in reality1. RomanceOne of the brightest and most diverse eras in Estonia’s his...
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In the beginning there was a myth.And the myth was split into arts, sciences, philosophy and religion; into the common and the sublime; int...
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The highest literary award of 2000, the National Cultural Award, was given to Andres Ehin for his collection of poetry, Alateadvus on alata...
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Am I really a shaman, I thought, as I packed my things that sunny day, ready to abandon pleasant Berlioz Street and head for Burgundy. Thi...
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Rather than narrating my encounters with Estonia according to some contrived plot, or explicating them in subordination to a thesis to ...
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I would give you my heart, but I can’t findanywhere even the scent of its buttercups,I have lost it somewhere, where one wandersunder golde...
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AS A CHILD, I thought the most skilful person I knew was the woman who sold bread at the baker’s. How did she manage with her sharp knife t...
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4 June - 16 July 20001 continent + 100 writers + 43 countries + 98 languages + 44 days + 7000 kilometres by railway + 8 trains + 11 passed...
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It is rather difficult to maintain that ‘science fiction’ existed in Estonian writing before 1990, and almost equally difficult to claim th...
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At the beginning of the 19th century, at the peak of Romanticism, K.-J. Peterson (1801-1822), one of the first known poets of Estonian orig...
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I think the time has come to say a few words about poetry anthologies in translation. There are already enough to draw some conclusions. Be...
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Ilona Laaman: Mulle ei meeldinud su nimi (I Did Not Like Your Name)Huma: Tallinn, 1999. 43 ppIlona Laaman (1934) lives in Sweden, where she...
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Yes still this sense that those rare
soulbirds who really hear and know
touch as well as flight
must be sheltered from night’s...
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Characters:Jaan Kross, literary classic, 80 years old on 19th FebruaryEllen Niit, his wife, Estonian writerAksel Tamm, Soviet-time publ...
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The tragic Estonian poet, Juhan Liiv, who lived on the knife-edge between genius and insanity, lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centu...
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Madis Kõiv: Near Kähri Church at Pekri (Kähri kerko man Pekril)"Studia Memoria" II. Võru: Võru Instituut, 1999. 232 ppEstonian literat...
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It is my belief that critical works of excavation and restoration, though risking some danger of suffocation in the labyrinthine byways of ...
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ONLY THE MISTS ARE REAL
The wind is a shuttle made of elm-wood,I am but an airy web of duskWhich God’s tapering fingers of a unicorn’s b...
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The sugar dissolved in the coffeeand spring began,scented and sweet.Your hands danced upon the tableThe long forgotten steps of me...
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Madis Kõiv (born in 1929) is a remarkably versatile man: a nuclear physicist by profession, he chairs the seminar of analytical philosophy ...
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Imaginary TriangleA.A. So…an overview of Estonian prose for ‘Estonian Literature Magazine’. It probably goes without saying that the no...
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During the seventies and the eighties the annual review of poetry in the literary magazine Looming was an important and influential institu...
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Guntars Godiņš, your name has been mentioned quite often recently in connection with the Via Estica literary award. You translated poems by...
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As a child of four or five, I used to long for paints and paper, so that I could draw to my heart’s content. My father gave me a piece ...
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The young pastor knows that it is not substance but surface that matters. Substance is what people do not often understand, or do not even ...
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From the coasts of the Mediterranean, the Baltic world appears to be as unknown, distant and exotic as the Fergana Valley, the mosques ...
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On reaching the age of reason I learned two things. Firstly, that there was no such thing as Father Christmas; and secondly, that there was...
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Helga Nõu, In the Eye of the Wolf (Hundi silmas)Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1999. 238 ppAfter WWII, Estonian literature was split into two br...
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Silence and ViolenceLong ago on a windy hunta horrible happiness abruptly bloomed in me and the landscape congealed only its pungentb...
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Various literature awards are given in Estonia each year, the most important of which is the national cultural award. In 1998 this pres...
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Ilmar Laaban, often called the father of Estonian Surrealism, was born on 17 November 1921 in Tallinn. Between 1939 and 1940 and again in 1...
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Ervin Õunapuu (born in 1956) is a Renaissance man by nature, both in life and in his work. It would be a hard task to enumerate everything...
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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...