Tags archives: andrus-kivirahk

Andrus Kivirähk, Veiko Tamjärv
November

by Mari Laaniste
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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 Kivirähk
Flight to the Moon

by Karl-Martin Sinijärv
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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...

Andrus Kivirähk
Tilda and the Dust Angel

By Krista Kumberg
ELM 1/2019
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FD Distribution, 2018. 144 pp.ISBN 9789949724802 For anyone expecting to find Andrus Kivirähk’s usual mischievous humor imbedded with im...

Job Lisman
Being led by literature

An interview by ELM
ELM 1/2017
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Job Lisman is the editorial director of Prometheus/Bert Bakker Publishers in the Netherlands, which publishes such bestselling authors as Je...

The many voices
of Estonian drama

By Heidi Aadma
ELM 1/2016
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Ten years ago was the one-hundredth anniversary of professional Estonian theatre. To celebrate the grand occasion, Pärnu’s Endla Theatre mad...

Literary Awards 2006

By Piret Viires
ELM 2/2007
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The 2006 Cultural Award of the Republic of Estonia for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement was given to the writer Mats Traat. The Estonia...

Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors

By Rutt Hinrikus, Janika Kronberg
ELM 1/2007
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Ervin Õunapuu. Meie igapäevane jää. Eesti gootika III(Our Daily Ice. Estonian Gothic III)Tallinn, Varrak, 2006. 257 pp  ISBN: 97899853...

Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors

By Janika Kronberg, Rutt Hinrikus
ELM 2/2005
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Andrus Kivirähk. Jutud (Stories)Tallinn: EKSA, 2005. 279 ppSince the publication of The Memoirs of Ivan Orav in 1995, Andrus Kivirähk has d...

The old Barny

By Andrus Kivirähk
ELM 1/2002
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November 1stJust before noon, the sun put in a brief appearance. For several weeks now, such a miracle had not taken place; since the begin...

The German Verdict

By Cornelius Hasselblatt
ELM 1/2002
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Every good translation is a new verbalisation of content or of amessage and is not the simple transposition of words from onelanguage to an...

Rehepapp: the beauty of ugliness

By Kaisu Lahikainen
ELM 1/2002
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I started to read this novel on a long train journey, and I nearly missed my station. The initial impression was really weird: I felt almos...

Old Barny - or, is humour translatable?

By Eric Dickens
ELM 1/2002
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Humour doesn’t always travel well. So, let me be frank, I am not on the same wavelength as Rehepapp (title translated variously as Old Barn...

Edibles

By Turid Farbregd
ELM1/2002
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Andrus Kivirähk: The Old Barny. Tallinn 2000. 200 ppAre you one of those who devour literature voraciously, like a horse? And soap like a c...

Short outlines of books by Estonian authors

By Janika Kronberg
ELM 1/2001
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Andrus Kivirähk: The Barn-keeper (”Rehepapp”)Tallinn, Varrak, 2000. 200 ppAndrus Kivirähk (1970) has very often used elements of folklore a...

Short overviews of books by Estonian authors

By Rutt Hinrikus and Janiks Kronberg
ELM 2/1999
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Madis Kõiv:  Near Kähri Church at Pekri (Kähri kerko man Pekril)"Studia Memoria" II. Võru: Võru Instituut, 1999. 232 ppEstonian literat...