Liis SeinMona's Dad Has Some Ideas by Kairi Look ••• Liis Sein began her writing career with plays that have been both staged, and awarded in playwriting competitions. She also co-wrote the sc...
Kadri Kiho, Stella Salumaa Endel and Kati by Jaanika Palm ••• 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...
Andris Feldmanis, Livia UlmanEric Stoneheart by Eva Kinkar ••• 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...
Andrus Kivirähk, Veiko TamjärvNovember by Mari Laaniste ••• 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...
Andrus KivirähkFlight to the Moon by Karl-Martin Sinijärv ••• 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...
Mehis Heinsaar The Lost Tribe by Jaan Sudak ELM 1/2023 ••• Mehis Heinsaare’s second full-length novel The Lost Tribe whisks readers to a deserted bog island, where the author muses in his signature ...
Sanna KartauI Vote for This War With My Body Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2023 ••• Winter To Sandra To live a winter, your roots must rest and the water freeze in your core. Stay motionless, white, a...
Berlin’s Community Energy Transmuted into Estonian Poetry by Silvia Urgas ELM 1/2023 ••• Sanna Kartau (b. 1993) is an Estonian poet and journalist whose debut collection I Vote for This War With My Body won the 2022 Betti Alver...
Lilli Luuk My Brother's Body Miss Kolkhoz by Vilja Kiisler ELM 1/2023 ••• Lilli Luuk appeared on the Estonian literary scene like a glimmering comet from a faraway galaxy – coming out of nowhere but taking her rig...
Tauno Vahter A Good Russian by Annika A. Koppel ELM 1/2023 ••• Tauno Vahter is a publisher, translator, and writer. A Good Russian is his second novel, following The 11 Escapes of Madis Jefferson (2021)...
Carolina Pihelgas Watching the Night by Kärt Hellerma ELM 1/2023 ••• Carolina Pihelgas’s debut novel can be labeled as a “kinship book”. Composed with confidence, its plot extends from the recent- to the some...
Epp Annus Greetings, Aleksander by Ene-Reet Soovik ELM 1/2023 ••• 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...
Tõnis Tootsen received special mention for the European Union Prize for Literature by ELM 1.05.2023 ••• Estonian writer Tõnis Tootsen received one of the five special mentions for the European Union Prize for Literature with his wonderful nove...
Jaak Jõerüüt Seven Odysseys by Siim Lill ELM 1/2023 ••• 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...
The Book That is a Beast of its Own by Andrei Liimets ELM 1/2023 ••• Pâté of the Apes by Tõnis Tootsen (b. 1988) is the story of Ergo, the first ape who has learned to write. As the title suggests, the s...
Tõnis Tootsen Pâté of the Apes Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2023 ••• pp. 14–18 II I just wrote about Undo and Redo at considerable length, but barely added a word about Mom and Dad. As someone wro...
A Night to Remember by Maximilian Murmann ELM 1/2023 ••• On New Year’s Eve a man straggles his way through Stockholm. Although he has been living in the city for quite some time, the narrator...
3+3 Mathura and Gili Haimovich ELM 1/2023 ••• Gili Haimovich and Mathura first met at a poetry festival in Romania seven years ago and have since enjoyed a long-standing collaborat...
Now, That’s Certainly Not Literature by Indrek Koff ELM 1/2023 ••• Writer Indrek Koff takes a look at literature’s borderlands and asks what peculiarities might arise there. For some reason, I’ve always ...