Tags archives: translator

Danutė Giraitė:
work = hobby = lifestyle

By Pille-Riin Larm
ELM 2019/1
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Danutė Sirijos Giraitė has been translating Estonian literature into Lithuanian for over 40 years, with a list of titles that spans prose, ...

My return from exile

By Enel Melberg
ELM 1/2008
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At first I was a teacher, then teacher and writer, then only writer, then writer and translator and recently I have been only translator; f...

Interview with Eeva Park

By Jayde Will
ELM 2/2007
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When did you start writing poetry? What was the feeling when you started writing poetry?I wrote my first poem when I was probably around 16...

Inexorable chain of events

By Jean Pascal Ollivry
ELM 1/2007
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In the beginning of the 90s, this person became acquainted with a few Estonians freshly arrived in Paris. These humble notes gather togethe...

Offshore and Aloof

By Eric Dickens
ELM 2/2005
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I read somewhere recently that between 2% and 3% of books published in the UK are translations. Whatever the exact statistic, this compares...

Rein Sepp. Things against the sky

By Tiit Aleksejev
ELM 2/2001
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The name Rein Sepp (1921-1995) in Estonian culture is above all associated with translations of a number of imposing works of literature. P...

Laaban. Broad view from a narrow bridge

By Andres Ehin
1/1999
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Ilmar Laaban, often called the father of Estonian Surrealism, was born on 17 November 1921 in Tallinn. Between 1939 and 1940 and again in 1...