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The Estonian public knows Rein Raud foremost as an intellectual and a scholar of the humanities who doesn’t balk at speaking up in discussio...
ELM 2018/1
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I’ve known Doris Kareva for many years. I know her to be a good person, editor, and poet, who works persistently to help and publish other p...
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I went to visit the world.
How it smelt,
how it moved and hummed!
The blood stirred in my arm – svelte,
vein...
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Published in 1935, I Loved a German (Ma armastasin sakslast) was the seventh novel written by the Estonian literary classic A. H. Tammsaare ...
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Undivere Manor, North-Central Estonia. 1979.
Arno was left alone in the lounge of the sauna house. I suppose I should...
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In the late 1990s, Sergei Issakov (1931–2013), who was born in the border town of Narva and taught Slavic studies in Tartu his entire career...
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Mehis Heinsaar, who is one of the most esteemed Estonian prose writers of the last decade, is likewise one of the chosen few to receive a st...
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A woman furtively squeezes the rounded surfaces of hard, unripe pears in her purse: she must somehow change the mind of a man who is threate...
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It wasn't I who made you this way
said Darwin,
the divine intuitive care of genetics opted
to give you light hair and a dark l...
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Estonia is a small country where people generally can’t make a living purely on art and literature: the market simply isn’t large enough. ...
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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...