Recent translations By Estonian Literature Centre ELM 2/2020 ••• English JONAS TAULÖömõttedA Serious ThoughtPublished by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 202064 pages Finnish JAAN KROS...
Maarja KangroWind By Siim Lill ELM 2/2020 ••• Nähtamatu Ahv 2019, 120 pp.ISBN 9789949013357 Maarja Kangro holds an unshakeable position on the Estonian literary scene. Her poetry, pr...
Peedu Saar Veronicas By Piret Viires ELM 2/2020 ••• Tallinn: Paradiis, 2019. 182 pp.ISBN 9789949741212Peedu Saar’s Veronicas is a dreamily sentimental romance that reads as ...
Tõnis ViluEmotional Upbringing By Kerstin Vestel ELM 2/2020 ••• Häämaa 2020, 93 pp.ISBN 9789949016594 Emotional Upbringing: Japanese Death Poems is Tõnis Vilu’s seventh poetry collection. On his blog,...
Andrus KivirähkThe Horned Blue Beast By Maarja Vaino ELM 2/2020 ••• EKSA, 2019. 296 pp.EAN 9789949684045 The Horned Blue Beast (2019) is the fifth novel by Andrus Kivirähk – a satirist, incredibly prolifi...
Gerda MärtensThe Northern Lights By Jaanika Palm ELM 2/2020 ••• Koolibri 2020, 40 ppISBN 9789985043738 Gerda Märtens, one of the most unique and fascinating illustrators in Estonian children’s lite...
Kärt HellermaKoidula’s Hand By Helena Läks ELM 2/2020 ••• Tuum, 216 pp.ISBN 9789949743308 Kärt Hellerma’s collection Koidula’s Hand contains ten dissimilar short stories, the characters of which...
Mait VaikSad Little Autumn By Peeter Helme ELM 2/2020 ••• Puiestee, 2018. 302 pp.ISBN 9789949728220 Sad Little Autumn, by Mait Vaik, who is best known in Estonia as a musician,...
Kairi LookPiia Biscuit and the Bandits By Peeter Helme ELM 2/2020 ••• Illustrated by Ulla Saar.Tänapäev, 2019. 142 pp.EAN 9789949856473 Kairi Look has thoroughly proven herself in the field of Estonian chil...
Martin AlgusSomething Real Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• Leo We had nothing left. It had been that way for some time alread...
Martin AlgusFamily as both a dream and a curse By Johanna Ross ELM 2/2020 ••• Martin Algus (b. 1973) is known foremost as an actor, dramatist, and screenwriter. He has authored award-winning plays for over a decade an...
Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki Peace lives in the Estonian language By Anti Saar ELM 2/2020 ••• Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki is a devoted translator of Estonian literature into her native Polish. Among other authors, she has translated wor...
Kristjan Haljakmaidens shipwrecks final judgement days Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• maidens shipwrecks final judgement dayshave been no strangers the last thirty yearsI was one of those jacks of all trades toopart alcoholic...
Poetry by Elo Viiding Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• From the collection Just About Love Girls’ toys These girls have no mothers;the mothers are with the boys.With the brothers who can n...
Elo Viiding and Kristjan Haljak4+4 ••• Elo Viiding’s debut poetry collection Telg (Axis) was released in 1990; her fifteenth and latest collection Ainult armastusest (Just Ab...
Poetry by Carolina Pihelgas Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• p. 12 ON SPACES Sometimes it seems like everything begins with departures. That not distances, but spaces, are what matters. Thei...
Carolina PihelgasWhat is it that I don’t remember? By Siim Lill ELM 2/2020 ••• Carolina Pihelgas’s books usually appear quietly, without fuss or commotion, at moderate intervals, and blossom into thrilling experiences ...
Joonas SildreA leap of faith with a cartoonist By Mari Laaniste ELM 2/2020 ••• Joonas Sildre’s graphic novel Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language was published in Estonian in the autumn of 20...
MudlumPolish Boys Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• Man has the mind of an animal. Inside, he fails spectacularly to draw a line between a little fun and the misery of lifelong rearing and re...
MudlumIt’s hard to think of anything better than a good book By Maia Tammjärv ELM 2/2020 ••• Mudlum (Made Luiga) is a rising star on the Estonian literary scene. She made her debut in 2014 with the short-story collection Tõsine inim...
Jan KausSublimations Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2020 ••• There lived a man who was in the habit of saying: “Be what may, but may there be order at home!” The man believed that people were created ...
On the Openness of Literature By Jan Kaus ELM 2/2020 ••• It isn’t a stretch to assert that literature is an art of solitude. This especially true in comparison with other creative practices: many ...
MudlumPolish Boys By Helena Läks ELM 2/2020 ••• EU Prize for Literature Laureate 2020 To write about one of the most distinctive and vibrant cultural groups to emerge in Estonia in rec...