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Urmas Vadi has staged literary scenes where absolute realism and the absurd come together to form a bizarre cohabitation for years, if not ...
Book reviews
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Viivi Luik is undoubtedly one of the most important and internationally renowned authors of Estonian literature. Enchanting Estonian reader...
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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 ...
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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...
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The success of Endel and Kati, by Kadri Kiho and Stella Salumaa, began with winning first place in the Knee-High Book Competition for child...
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Erik Stoneheart is a story of grief, family ties, and budding friendship that centers around a lonely 11-year-old boy. Adapted from Ilmar R...
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At this point in time, an Estonian novel getting adapted into a graphic novel could be described as a phenomenon that’s only slightly m...
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Andrus Kivirähk is one of the most popular and fascinating Estonian authors of the last quarter century (and no doubt of all time). His new...
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Mehis Heinsaare’s second full-length novel The Lost Tribe whisks readers to a deserted bog island, where the author muses in his signature ...
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Lilli Luuk appeared on the Estonian literary scene like a glimmering comet from a faraway galaxy – coming out of nowhere but taking her rig...
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Tauno Vahter is a publisher, translator, and writer. A Good Russian is his second novel, following The 11 Escapes of Madis Jefferson (2021)...
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Carolina Pihelgas’s debut novel can be labeled as a “kinship book”. Composed with confidence, its plot extends from the recent- to the some...
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Epp Annus’s Greetings, Aleksander is a tale told in an old farmhouse in the middle of a hayfield, among the dull yellow loneliness of grass...
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The full extent of Jaak Jõerüüt’s writing is outstanding. Over just a handful of years, he has published short stories, a novel, an incred...
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Shoe #41 by Jaanus Vaiksoo is a new addition to the series that follows the adventures of 12-year-old Paul Fifth and his best friends, Min...
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Kaldmaa’s Lydia is the story of a little girl who grows up to become an esteemed poet. The author undertook the daring task of writing...
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Kärt Hellerma (b. 1956) is an Estonian writer whose debut book, Alchemy, appeared in 1997. She has since published in a variety of genres, ...
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Natalja Nekramatnaja’s debut poetry collection Sinine pojeng (Blue Peonies) is severe, and truly exceptional in a year of otherwise pol...
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Every new book Anti Saar writes holds a surprise in terms of both topic and style. He has published close to a dozen works; including young...
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Kertu Sillaste has already been a familiar name to fans of Estonian children’s literature for more than a decade. After initially illustrat...
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Although The Rooted Garden is a small book in a soft pink color palette, its message is tremendous and provides a feast of food for thought...
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Kadri Hinrikus’s books let the brighter side of life shine through, and are ideal for when dark clouds of worry crowd one’s thoughts or unf...
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Rein Raud is an author, philosopher, and Asian Studies scholar whose works never go unnoticed. Raud’s numerous novels serve as a li...
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Eva Koff’s second novel Lucid Dreams is true to its title, exploring a state of lucid dreaming that is so powerful it cannot be separat...
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It’s easy to summarize Kai Aareleid’s novel Pacific Ocean in just a few words: Stella, the protagonist, is cheated on by her hu...
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Kiwa (Jaanus Kivaste) dabbles in an array of creative fields: he is perhaps best known as an artist but is also a composer, curator, p...
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Juta Kivimäe’s debut novel The Drawing Room shared first place in the 2021 novel-writing competition organized by the Estonian Writ...
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Loone Ots’s debut novel won first place in the Estonian Writers’ Union’s 2021 Fiction Contest.
Reviewing Loone Ots’s novel, I must t...
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English
JONAS TAULÖömõttedA Serious ThoughtPublished by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 202064 pages
Finnish
JAAN KROS...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Leelo Tungal, Seltsimees laps (Comrade Kid)
Tänapäev, 2018. 512 pp
ISBN 9789949853076
Leelo Tungal’s Comrade Kid trilogy – Co...
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Olle Lauli, Kuristik (The Abyss)
Tallinn, Gallus, 2018. 439 pp
ISBN 9789949720637
Olle Lauli, writing under a pseudonym, is inarguably ...
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Berk Vaher, Silmanurga taga (Behind the Corner of the Eye)
Elusamus 2018, 56 pp.
ISBN 9789949884346
The title Silmanurga taga (Behind the...
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Andra Teede, Pikad mehed, pikad elud (Tall Men, Long Lives)
Jumalikud ilmutused, 2018. 70 pp.
ISBN 9789949519934
Andra Teede is a poet an...
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Indrek Hargla, Kolmevaimukivi (The Three-Spirit Stone)
Raudhammas, 2018. 425 pp
ISBN 9789949985166
This spring, Indrek Hargla...
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Eva Koff, Sinine mägi (Blue Mountain)
Tallinn, Varrak, 2017. 440 pp
ISBN 9789985342213
Eva Koff’s Blue Mountain, which shared 2nd and 3...
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Vahur Afanasjev, Serafima ja Bogdan (Serafima and Bogdan)
Vemsa, 2017. 560 pp
ISBN 9789949880355
The plot of Vahur Afanasjev’s opus ma...
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Tõnu Õnnepalu, Valede kataloog / inglise aed (Catalogue of Lies / English Garden)
Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2017. 392 pp
ISBN 97899...
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Carolina Pihelgas, Pimeduse pisiasjad (Details of Darkness)
Kaksikhammas, 2017, 84 pp
ISBN 9789949999101
Carolina Pihelgas’s fifth poet...
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Hasso Krull, Kandsime redelit kaasas (We Carried the Ladder with Us)
Tartu, Kaksikhammas, 2017, 64 pp
ISBN 9789949880188
Carolina Pihe...
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Madli Lippur, June/Julien
Tallinn, Tänapäev, 2016. 328 pp
ISBN 9789949850280
Madli Lippur’s highly praised debut June / Julien is a nov...
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Jan Kaus, Kompass. Miniatuurromaan (Compass. A short prose novel)
Hea Lugu, 2017. 111 pp
ISBN 9789949589647
Although Jan Kaus has penn...
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Triin Soomets, Vaba raha (Free Money)
Tallinn, Nynorden 2017. 64 pp
ISBN: 9789949960071
Triin Soomets is known foremost as an...
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Andrei Ivanov, Batüskaaf (Bathyscaphe)
Tallinn: Tänapäev, 2017. 335 pp.
ISBN 9789949851713
Andrei Ivanov’s world cannot simply be rea...
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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzmatsin (Paavo Matsin)
Must päike (The Black Sun)
Lepp ja Nagel, 2017, 192 pp
EAN 9789789949885
Paavo Matsin...
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Urmas Vadi. Neverland
Kolm Tarka, 2017. 352 pp
Issues of identity remain topical in Estonian literature, and are addressed by Urmas Vadi...
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Eda Ahi. Sadam (Harbor)
Tallinn, Verb, 2017. 48 pp
ISBN 9789949984152
Eda Ahi is a self-standing great of contemporary Estonian poetry....
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Elo Viiding, Teadvuselooja (Consciousmaker).
Tallinn, Tuum, 2016. 64 pp
ISBN 9789949979431
Consciousmaker begins in a psycho-mythologic...
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Kristjan Haljak. Conceptio Immaculata.
Tallinn, Vihmakass ja Kakerdaja, 2017. 65 pp
ISBN 9789949811212
Kristjan Haljak is the only cred...
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Billeneeve, Sügis nagu lõppev suhe (An Autumn Like an Ending Relationship)
Saarde-Pärnu, Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2015. 60 pp
ISBN: 9789949519...
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Triin Soomets, Valitud omadused (Chosen Qualities)
Tallinn, Tuum, 2016. 327 pp.
ISBN: 9789949979424
Chosen Qualities (Valitud omadused)...
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Tarmo Teder, Andruse elu ja õnn (Andrus’ Life and Joy)
Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2016. 102 pp.
ISBN: 9789985796795
Tarmo Teder (19...
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Lauri Sommer, Lugusid lõunast. 2012–2016 (Stories from the South. 2012–2016)
Tallinn, Menu Meedia, 2016. 200 pp.
ISBN: 9789949549436
Es...
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Katrin Johanson, Atlantis abajas (Atlantis in a Cove)
Tallinn, Varrak, 2016. 160 pp.
ISBN: 9789985337967
Katrin Johanson’s (1972) entra...
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Maarja Kangro, Klaaslaps (The Glass Child)
Tallinn, Nähtamatu Ahv, 2016. 208 pp.
ISBN: 9789949813629
Maarja Kangro (1973) has been one ...
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Eeva Park, Lemmikloomade paradiis (Pets’ Paradise)
Tallinn, Verb, 2016. 239 pp
ISBN: 9789949984138
Eeva Park (1950) is one of those rar...
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Jan Kaus, Läheduste raamat (The Book of Closeness)
Tallinn, Verb, 2016. 72 pp
ISBN: 9789949969067
The miniature, just like many other f...