Eda Ahi (born 1 February 1990 in Tallinn) is an Estonian poet, translator and diplomat. [1]
She graduated from University of Tartu, where she received master's degree; specialty was Russian culture. After graduation, she worked as a diplomat in Ukraine.
Aino Krohn Kallas was a Finnish-Estonian author. Her novellas are considered to be prominent pieces of Finnish literature.
Ene Mihkelson was an Estonian writer. She was a recipient of the Herder Prize and the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature.
Matthias Johann Eisen was an Estonian folklorist and in 1920–1927 served as the Professor of Folk Poetry at University of Tartu.
Estonian literature is literature written in the Estonian language The domination of Estonia after the Northern Crusades, from the 13th century to 1918 by Germany, Sweden, and Russia resulted in few early written literary works in the Estonian language. The oldest records of written Estonian date from the 13th century. Originates Livoniae in Chronicle of Henry of Livonia contains Estonian place names, words and fragments of sentences. The Liber Census Daniae (1241) contains Estonian place and family names. The earliest extant samples of connected Estonian are the so-called Kullamaa prayers dating from 1524 and 1528. The first known printed book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S.Wanradt and J. Koell (1535). For the use of priests an Estonian grammar was printed in German in 1637. The New Testament was translated into southern Estonian in 1686. The two dialects were united by Anton Thor Helle in a form based on northern Estonian. Writings in Estonian became more significant in the 19th century during the Estophile Enlightenment Period (1750–1840).
Elisabet "Betti" Alver, was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.
Oskar Kallas was an Estonian diplomat, linguist and folklorist. He was the husband of the Finnish writer Aino Kallas.
Karl Martin Sinijärv is an Estonian journalist and poet.
Heiti Talvik was an Estonian poet.
Ernst Enno was an Estonian poet and writer.
Priidu Beier is an Estonian poet and teacher. He has edited several publications and is also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union and Estonian Literary Society. Between 1984–1990 he was the Head of the Pedagogical arts sector of Tartu Art Museum. In 2007 he presented a poetry collection in Tartu with Kerti Tergem. According to Tartu Postimees, Beier lives like a monk. He teaches art history at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu.
Viivi Luik is an Estonian poet and prosaist.
Kätlin Kaldmaa is an Estonian freelance writer, poet, translator and literary critic. Since 2010, Kaldmaa is the president of the Estonian PEN. In 2016 she was elected Secretary of the PEN International.
Viiu Härm is an Estonian poet, author, photographer, translator, and former actress. Härm's career as an actress began as a teenager in the early 1960s. After appearing onstage and in several films, she retired from acting in the early 1970s to focus on writing.
Kai Aareleid is an Estonian prose writer, poet and translator.
Elise Aun was an Estonian poet and writer; one of the most notable women writers in 19th-century Estonia.
Contra is an Estonian poet and translator.
Hilda Dresen was an Estonian radio-telegraphist and esperantist, translator. She mainly translated Estonian poetry into Esperanto.
Andres Ehin was an Estonian writer and translator. In 1964 he graduated from University of Tartu, studying Estonian philology. From 1972 to 1974 he was the senior scientific editor of Estonian Soviet Encyclopaedia. From 1972 he was a member of Estonian Writers' Union. From 1968 to 1989 he was a member of Communist Party. In 1990 he joined Estonian Social Democratic Party.
P. I. Filimonov is a Russian-Estonian writer who lives in Estonia.
Mait Vaik is an Estonian writer and musician, a member of Estonian Writers' Union since 2016.