Viivi Luik The Golden Crown by Aija Sakova ELM 2/2023 ••• Viivi Luik is undoubtedly one of the most important and internationally renowned authors of Estonian literature. Enchanting Estonian reader...
Gunnar Neeme Windsure by Janika Kronberg ELM 2/2023 ••• Gunnar Neeme (1918–2005) lived most of his life in Australia and achieved international recognition as an artist. He published two ...
Kairi Look: An Author Who Treads Boundaries by Annika A. Koppel ELM 2/2023 ••• Kairi Look’s first children’s book, Ville the Lemur Flies the Coop, was published in 2012. The author herself could very well be that lemu...
Literature Should Tell Complete Stories—That Is Its Essence Annika A. Koppel ELM 2/2023 ••• The history of the novel-writing competition organized by the Estonian Writers’ Union goes back nearly a century, albeit with interrupt...
Vareda by Sven Mikser Excerpt from manuscript ELM 2/2023 ••• And then it’s over. Karel is home that night. He sees me from the kitchen window and comes to the door, eyes wide with excitement and a...
Poetry by Triin Paja Burying the River ••• Triin Paja (b. 1990) is the author of three Estonian-language poetry collections and a recipient of the Värske Rõhk Poetry Award, the B...
Feeling Backward: Border State thirty years later by Raili Marling ELM 2/2023 ••• This year marks the thirtieth birthday of Tõnu Õnnepalu’s, aka Emil Tode’s Border State (1993), one of the most widely translated contempor...
Tõnu Õnnepalu: A Writer is a Saboteur, a Spy, a Dubious Character by Maia Tammjärv ELM 2/2023 ••• Thirty years have passed since the release of Border State, a novel by Tõnu Õnnepalu (b. 1962) that was published under the pseudonym E...
Who Could Hold All the World’s Beauty? by Joonas Hellerma ELM 2/2023 ••• The reception of Emil Tode’s Border State (1993) was shaped by multiple elements that were novel to Estonian literature of the time, i...