Turid Farbregd's speech on receiving the Karel Capek medal By Turid Fareberg ELM 2003/1 ••• "I’m nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – Too?"This quotation is not from a translator, as you might expect, but from the American poet E...
Treading Air. A tragicomedy in 40 acts By Eric Dickens ELM 1/2003 ••• 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 ••• 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...
Three episodes from Ullo's childhood... as deswcribed in the novel Treading Air By Jaan Kross ELM 1/2003 ••• ULLO IN BERLIN AS A CHILD, ANNO 1923Ullo did not recall his impressions of the railway journey. But he did remember the taxi journey to Unt...
Sulev Kaja. An Estonian at heart By Michel Fincoeur ••• “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 ••• 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 ••• 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 ••• 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 ••• 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 ••• Autumn 1944 started the diaspora of Baltic peoples; exile scattered Estonian literature all over the world. Until that time, Estonian lite...