Kärt HellermaThe Blue Mass By Eret Talviste ELM 2/2022 ••• Kärt Hellerma (b. 1956) is an Estonian writer whose debut book, Alchemy, appeared in 1997. She has since published in a variety of genres, ...
Rein RaudThe Sun Script Siim Lill ELM 1/2022 ••• Rein Raud is an author, philosopher, and Asian Studies scholar whose works never go unnoticed. Raud’s numerous novels serve as a li...
Eva KoffLucid Dreams Silvia Urgas ELM 1/ 2022 ••• Eva Koff’s second novel Lucid Dreams is true to its title, exploring a state of lucid dreaming that is so powerful it cannot be separat...
Kai AareleidPacific Ocean By Kärt Hellerma ELM 1/2022 ••• It’s easy to summarize Kai Aareleid’s novel Pacific Ocean in just a few words: Stella, the protagonist, is cheated on by her hu...
Juta KivimäeThe Drawing Room Taavi Kangur ELM 1/ 2022 ••• Juta Kivimäe’s debut novel The Drawing Room shared first place in the 2021 novel-writing competition organized by the Estonian Writ...
Loone OtsLove in a Hopeless Place By Andrei Hvostov ELM 1/2022 ••• Loone Ots’s debut novel won first place in the Estonian Writers’ Union’s 2021 Fiction Contest. Reviewing Loone Ots’s novel, I must t...
Loone Ots Love Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 1/2022 ••• 5:07 a.m.SALME The snow has compacted into dense drifts. I have to lift my short legs high with every step and bring them down with full...
Andrei Ivanov: Real Writing Is Disturbing By Ilona Martson ELM 1/2022 ••• Russian-Estonian writer Andrei Ivanov lives with his wife and son in a Soviet-era apartment block on the outskirts of Estonia’s capital. He...
David Vseviov Humans, not eras, are either boring or compelling By Toomas Kall ELM 1/2020 ••• David Vseviov is a popular historian in Estonia – students know him as an erudite professor, while the general public knows him as an enter...
Eia UusWhat It Feels Like for a Girl By Taavi Hallimäe ELM 1/2020 ••• Postimees Kirjastus 2019, 272 ppISBN 9789949669653 Eia Uus’s new novel, What It Feels Like for a Girl, could be catalogued in the “leisu...
Paavo MatsinThe Congo Tango By Siim Lill ELM 1/2020 ••• Lepp ja Nagel 2019, 232 ppISBN 9789789949014 Paavo Matsin’s new novel is a treat for the author’s long-time fans. The story is fast-pace...
Piret Raud The Garden of Devil’s Milks By Elisa-Johanna Liiv ELM 1/2020 ••• Tänapäev 2019, 208 ppISBN 9789949856206 According to the text on the back cover of Piret Raud’s novel The Garden of Devil’s Milks, this ...
Jaan Kross –An Estonian ambassador By Cornelius Hasselblatt ELM 1/2020 ••• When Estonia gained independence in 1918, one of the first tasks of the new state was to tell the rest of the world that it exists. Diploma...
Eeva ParkMy Majestic Giraffes By Piret Viires ELM 2/2019 ••• From the “Writers with Writers” seriesTallinn; Hea Lugu, 2018. 158 pp. ISBN 9789949634538 In 2018, the Hea Lugu publishing house launc...
Tõnu ÕnnepaluParis: Twenty-five years laterandAcre By Siim Lill ELM 2/2019 ••• Paris (Twenty-five years later) EKSA 2019, 176 pp. ISBN 9789949604876 Aaker (Muskoka, Ontario, CA) EKSA 2019, 389 pp. ISBN 97899...
Rein Raud Last One Turns Out the Light By Peeter Helme ELM 1/2019 ••• Salv, 2018. 192 pp.ISBN 9789949887408 Rein Raud is an author riveted by society. In addition to writing prose, poetry, and drama, he is ...
A Brief Guide to Toomas Nipernaadi’s Estonia By Jason Finch ELM 1/2019 ••• The object of this guide is to supply curious readers, who are possibly also travellers in the country, with some information about the lan...