Eeva Park (born September 9, 1950 in Tallinn) is an Estonian writer.
Eeva Park (born September 9, 1950 in Tallinn) is an Estonian writer.
Park was born Eeva Hint in 1950. She is the daughter of writers Aadu Hint and Minni Nurme. After high school she worked as a silk and porcelain painter, and as an archival assistant. She began her career in 1983 as a poet, but soon turned to prose. Her 1993 novel Tolm ja Tuul describes in a fairly obvious way the breakup of his parents' marriage. [1] She is known for her novels' dark undertones, but she has also written plays and short stories, as well as continuing to write poetry. Park has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1993. In 1994, she received the Friedebert Tuglas Literature Prize. She currently lives in Saku Parish.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
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Estonian literature is literature written in the Estonian language
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