Piret Raud

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Piret Raud
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Raud in 2021
Born(1971-07-15)15 July 1971
Tallinn, Estonia
OccupationAuthor, illustrator
NationalityEstonian
GenreChildren's books
Notable awards Friedebert Tuglas short story award (2022)
Website
piretraud.com

Piret Raud (born 15 July 1971) is a contemporary Estonian author and illustrator. [1] [2]

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Biography

Raud was born 15 July 1971. She is the daughter of Estonian children's authors Eno Raud and Aino Pervik. Her brothers are scholar and author Rein Raud and musician and writer Mihkel Raud.

She graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in printmaking, and initially set off on the same path.

After trying her hand at writing, Raud has since become the most renowned and widely translated children's author in Estonia. She has written about 20 titles, has been translated into 14 different languages, and has illustrated more than 50 titles. [3]

Since 2018, she has mainly been writing for older audiences. To date, Raud has published 3 novels and a short story collection. Her fiction has been well received: she has received the A. H. Tammsaare Literary Award (2020) for her novel Verihurmade aed (The Garden of Devil's Milks), [4] been nominated for the Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Award for Literature (2021) for Kaotatud sõrmed (Lost Fingers) [5] and most recently won the prestigious Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award (2022) for her short story Pink (The Bench). [6]

Selected works

Fiction

Children's books

Translations

Albanian

English

French

German

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Polish

Russian

Slovenian

Spanish

Awards and honors

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References

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  2. "Home". Piret Raud. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. "Piret Raud's Home Page". Piret Raud. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. "Tammsaare-nimelise lugejapreemia saab Piret Raud". Kultuur (in Estonian). 25 January 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  5. ERR (10 February 2021). "Selgusid kultuurkapitali kirjanduse aastapreemiate nominendid". ERR (in Estonian). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  6. ERR (2 March 2022). "Tuglase novelliauhinna pälvisid Piret Raud ja Toomas Haug". ERR (in Estonian). Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  7. "The Ear". Thames & Hudson. Retrieved 27 August 2019.