Meelis Friedenthal
The Estonian writer Meelis Friedenthal (b.1973) has written a doctoral thesis at Tartu University on a 13th century philosophical-theological treatise about seeing and vision. Friedenthal is currently Associate Professor in Tartu University and his research topic is the intellectual history of the Early Modern Period.
In 2013 his novel Willow King was one of the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL).
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Peter Freuchen, born Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen was a Danish explorer, writer and traveler.
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He spent many years in Thule, Greenland, living with the Polar Inuit. He worked with Knud Rasmussen, crossing the Greenland icecap with him. In 1935, Freuchen visited South Africa, and by the end of the decade, he had travelled to Siberia.
In 1938 he founded The Adventurer's Club (Eventyrernes Klub in Danish), which still exists. They later honoured his memory by planting an oak tree and creating an Eskimo cairn near the place, where he left Denmark for Greenland back in 1906.
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Tõnu Õnnepalu
An Estonian author and poet who also writes as Emil Tode and Anton Nigov.
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Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. He began his writing career as a poet in 1985 and has published three collections of his works. In 1993 he garnered international attention when his novel Piiririik (English translation: "Border State") was published under his pen name 'Emil Tode'. The book was translated into 14 languages and became the most translated Estonian book of the 1990s. That year, he received the annual literary award given by the Baltic Assembly.
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Eleanor Farjeon
Daughter of Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, sister of Herbert Farjeon and J. Jefferson Farjeon.
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Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published. She won many literary awards and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for children's literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children's Book Circle, a society of publishers.
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Hasso Krull
Hasso Krull is one of the most important writers and thinkers to emerge from Estonia since the country regained independence in 1991. Krull’s poetry is strongly rooted in the Estonian landscape, but reaches far beyond regional concerns due to its attention to the details of modern life and the intellect of the poet, who demonstrates a wide range of influences, from the philosophy of Derrida to the oral trickster tales of the Winnebago people of North America. With an extremely light hand, Krull crafts poems that seem straightforward and accessible but have a remarkable depth upon close study. In recent years, Krull has been strongly attracted to mythologies, creation stories and cosmology, all of which exert a strong influence on his work a
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Kalju Kruusa
Kalju Kruusa (kodanikunimi Jaanus Valk) on eesti luuletaja ja tõlkija. Kalju Kruusa lõpetas 1992 Tallinna 20. Keskkooli ja astus aasta pärast Tartu Ülikooli, kus õppis 1993–1997 inglise filoloogiat ja semiootikat. Aastal 1997 läks ta Eesti Humanitaarinstituuti romanistika erialale ja lõpetas Tallinna Ülikooli 2008 bakalaureusetööga "Mallarmé luule: kogelemine". Aastatel 2004–2005 viibis ta vahetusüliõpilasena Tōkyōs Waseda ülikoolis ja õppis jaapani keelt.
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Aastal 2001 asutas ta koos Hasso Krulliga tõlkeluule internetiajakirja Ninniku.
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Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
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Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also obtained her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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Andrus Kivirähk
Andrus Kivirähk is an Estonian journalist, playwright and novelist. His writing style can be called self-mocking and sarcastic with dark humour. His best known work "Rehepapp ehk November", a.k.a. "Rehepapp", has been translated to Finnish and Norwegian. "Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu", a bestseller in Estonia, so popular that a board-game was based on it, has been translated to English as "The Man Who Spoke Snakish". These books, as well as his other historical-themed works such as "Ivan Orava mälestused" and "Kalevipoeg" resonated strongly with contemporary Estonian society.
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Kivirähk is also the author of the children's book "Leiutajateküla Lotte" and its sequels, and wrote the screenplay for the cartoon based on it.
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Tõnu Õnnepalu
An Estonian author and poet who also writes as Emil Tode and Anton Nigov.
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Rein Raud
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
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He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
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Kristiina Ehin
Kristiina Ehin on eesti luuletaja ja proosakirjanik.
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Ta on õppinud Tartu Ülikoolis eesti filoloogiat ja spetsialiseerunud rahvaluulele. Aastal 2004 omandas ta Tartu Ülikoolis magistrikraadi eesti ja võrdleva rahvaluule alal. Magistritöö teemaks oli "Eesti vanema ja uuema rahvalaulu tõlgendusvõimalusi naisuurimuslikust aspektist". Ta on töötanud Vodja koolis õpetajana.
Kristiina Ehin on kuulunud kirjandusrühmitusse Erakkond.
Ta on ka laulnud ansamblis Sinimaniseele.
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A.H. Tammsaare
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Tammsaare was born in 1878 into a farming family. He attended secondary school in Tartu from 1898 to 1903 and from 1903 to 1905 he worked as an editor at the Tallinn newspaper, Teataja. In Tallinn he was able to witness the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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Kairi Look
Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.
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Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.
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Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
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Juhan Smuul was born on the 18th February in 1922 on the island of Muhu as his father’s 19th child. He was supposed to be the heir of the farm and a farmer, but instead he became a sea writer, publicist and a active member of society. He died on the 13th of April in 1971 in Tallinn.
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Juhan Smuul studied at the period from 1930 to 1936 in the Piiri elementary school, afterwards he studied for a short period of time in Järvamaa Jäneda agricultural school. He quit his studies when he got a cold and ended up with a glands infection to a clinic in Tartu. That ended his official education period.
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Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (g. 1960 m. Panevėžyje) – Lietuvos prozininkė, eseistė.
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1983 m. baigė lituanistiką Vilniaus universitete ir mokytojavo provincijoje. 1986 m. persikėlė į Vilnių, ilgą laiką dirbo redakcijose. 1994–1997 m. su šeima gyveno Čikagoje, ten būdama, kartu su vyru kalbininku Giedriu Subačiumi išleido Čikagos Newberry bibliotekos lituanistinių ir prūsistinių knygų iki 1882 m. katalogą.
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