ELM 2003/1

Treading Air. A tragicomedy in 40 acts

By Eric Dickens
ELM 1/2003
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Jaan Kross’ 1998 novel Paigallend will soon be appearing in English under the title of Treading Air which is an approximation to the origi...

Translators in the middle of the Baltic Sea

By Øyvind Rangøy
ELM 1/2003
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Gotland lies more or less in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The "capital" and at the same time the only town is Visby. In the Middle Ages th...

Sulev Kaja. An Estonian at heart

By Michel Fincoeur
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“After a week’s voyage on a small, Estonian cargo ship of venerable age, across a proud North Sea, and a breezy Baltic, having as a vie...

Short outlines of books by Estonian authors

By Rutt Hinrikus and Janika Kronberg
ELM 1/2003
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Emil Tode. Radio (Raadio) Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2002. 447 pp Tõnu Õnnepalu, writing under the pseudonym Emil Tod...

Poetry by Gustav Suits

Translated by Jüri Talvet
ELM 1/2003
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RINGED MOONMoonlight falls distant and dry,Frosting the snowfields in lustre;Trees shudder darkly and sigh,And, to win warmth, seem to clus...

Gustav Suits. A serious man

By Gustav Suits
ELM 1/2003
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This letter was written in Helsinki, even though the recipient also resided there. It is dated simply : Good Friday, 1905.My dear “Kame...

Gustav Suits

By Ele Süvalep
ELM 1/2003
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Born on 30 November 1883 in Võnnu, in southern Estonia, into the family of a village teacher, Suits came to Tartu in 1895 and began his st...

Asta Willmann. Actress and writer

By Rutt Hinrikus
ELM 1/2003
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Autumn 1944 started the diaspora of Baltic peoples; exile scattered Estonian literature all over the world. Until that time, Estonian lite...