How Are We to Survive? With Jaan Kaplinski in the Anthropocene By Marek Tamm ELM 1/2022 ••• Ecological thinking lies at the core of Jaan Kaplinski’s (1941–2021) diverse catalogue. His poetry, prose, essays, and general outlook on l...
Jaan Kaplinski: Questions, Answers, and Other Thought-Rhymes By Märt Väljataga ELM 1/2022 ••• Jaan Kaplinski wrote nearly 2,000 poems in several styles and languages over eighty years. The first in his official canon is a ballad titl...
Jaan KaplinskiThe last laureate? ELM 2/2016 ••• In February 2016, compelling news rang out: Jaan Kaplinski was awarded the European Prize for Literature. The award, which is sponsored by t...
Kaplinski's changing tale By Lauri Sommer ELM 2/2008 ••• In his short discourse titled Literature, Jaan Kaplinski wrote about an uncertainty of his, about his years-long wait for his prose to ‘sta...
Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors By Rutt Hinrikus, Janika Kronberg ELM 2/2007 ••• Tamara Miljutina, Inimesed minu elus. (People in My Life)Tallinn, Varrak, 2007. 396 ppEnn Soosaar. Isa ja aeg. (My Father...
Literary perspectives: waiting for the Great Estonian Novel By Märt Väljataga ELM 2/2007 ••• In 2005, statistics revealed that the most popular author in Estonia, if judged by public library loans, was the American romance writer No...
Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors By Rutt Hinrikus, Janika Kronberg ELM 1/2006 ••• Jaak Jõerüüt: Sõber. Valik novelle 1979-2005 (A Friend. Selected Short Stories 1979-2005)Tallinn, Tuum, 2005. 260 pp ISBN 99858...
Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors By Janika Kronberg, Rutt Hinrikus ELM 2/2005 ••• Andrus Kivirähk. Jutud (Stories)Tallinn: EKSA, 2005. 279 ppSince the publication of The Memoirs of Ivan Orav in 1995, Andrus Kivirähk has d...
Short outlines of Books by Estonian Authors By Janika Kronberg ELM 1/2004 ••• Nikolai Baturin: Kentaur (The Centaur)Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 2003. 574 ppThe main theme of Nikolai Baturin’s (b. 1936) work has been th...
Short outlines of books by Estonian authors By Janika Kronberg ELM 2/2003 ••• Karl-Martin Sinijärv. Artutart & 39Tallinn, Tuum, 2002. 75 ppKarl-Martin Sinijärv (1971) entered Estonian literature almost as a child ...
Short outlines of books by Estonian authors By Janika Kronberg ELM 1/2001 ••• Andrus Kivirähk: The Barn-keeper (”Rehepapp”)Tallinn, Varrak, 2000. 200 ppAndrus Kivirähk (1970) has very often used elements of folklore a...
Short outlines of books by estonian authors By Janika Kronberg ELM 2/2000 ••• Andres Ehin. Alateadvus on alatasa purjus (The Subconscious Is Always Drunk)Tallinn: “Varrak”, 2000. 519 ppThere are two avowedly surre...
Estonian poetry 1998. Fashions and figures By Hasso Krull ELM 2/1999 ••• During the seventies and the eighties the annual review of poetry in the literary magazine Looming was an important and influential institu...
Conversation between Doris Kareva and Guntars Godinš By Doris Kareva ELM 2/1999 ••• Guntars Godiņš, your name has been mentioned quite often recently in connection with the Via Estica literary award. You translated poems by...
Short outlines of books by Estonian authors By Rutt Hinrikus, Janika Kronberg 1/1999 ••• Helga Nõu, In the Eye of the Wolf (Hundi silmas)Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1999. 238 ppAfter WWII, Estonian literature was split into two br...