Minni Nurme | |
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| Born | Minni Neumann 30 October 1917 |
| Died | 22 November 1994 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Writer, poet |
| Years active | 1939–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Jan Raudsepp (1936–1941, divorced) Aadu Hint (1936–1958, divorced) |
| Children | 6, including Eeva Park |
Minni Katharina Nurme (born 30 October 1917 in Aidu Parish, today Viljandi Parish, Viljandi County; died 22 November 1994 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer.
Born Minni Neumann, Nurme graduated from the girls' school in Viljandi in 1936. During World War II she lived behind Soviet lines; after the war she moved to Tallinn and worked as a freelance writer. Her first prose work was the 1939 novel Kentaurid (The Centaurs). Two years later came the novel Ratastool (The Wheelchair). She turned more and more to poetry during the war, and in 1945 published her first poetry collection, Sünnimuld (Mother Earth). Between her second and third collections came a ten-year hiatus, largely due to the harassment of Stalinist authorities. Nurme was also active as a translator, from Finnish and English.
Nurme's elder sister was the poet Salme Ekbaum. After she married Jan Raudsepp in 1936, she was known until 1941 as Minni Raudsepp. In 1941 she married the writer Aadu Hint; the marriage was dissolved in 1958, but produced five children, three sons and two daughters. The divorce was a scandal in Estonia. [1] Of these one, Eeva Park, later became a well-known writer.
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