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...
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...
Tõnu Õnnepalu Catalogue of Lies / English Garden By Erik Aru ELM 1/2018 ••• Tõnu Õnnepalu, Valede kataloog / inglise aed (Catalogue of Lies / English Garden) Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2017. 392 pp ISBN 97899...
Peripheries of (be)longingin contemporary Estonian literature By Brita Melts ELM 2/2016 ••• While the topic of confession and a deluge of biographies were items of discussion in Estonian literature during the first decade ...
The many voicesof Estonian drama By Heidi Aadma ELM 1/2016 ••• Ten years ago was the one-hundredth anniversary of professional Estonian theatre. To celebrate the grand occasion, Pärnu’s Endla Theatre mad...
Short Outlines of Books by Estonian Authors By Rutt Hinrikus, Janika Kronberg ELM 1/2008 ••• Doris Kareva. Cut (Lõige). Tallinn: Verb, 2007, 56 pp. ISBN 978-9985-9840-0-0. Describing good poetry using ordinary language is al...
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...
Hasso Krull, an anarchist winter poet By Tõnu Õnnepalu ELM 2/2007 ••• Hasso Krull is a winter poet. I’m not saying this merely out of opportunism – his latest and much acclaimed collection of poetry (2006) was...
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 Rutt Hinrikus and Janika Kronberg ELM 1/2003 ••• Emil Tode. Radio (Raadio) Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2002. 447 pp Tõnu Õnnepalu, writing under the pseudonym Emil Tod...
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...