Eno Raud
He was an Estonian children's book author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and devoted himself to writing. His works include "Three funny friends", "The story with the flying saucer", "Fire in a darkened city", "Nii või naa" (This or that way) and others.
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He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1972 for Krabat.
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Sündinud Rakveres velskri tütrena. Koolitee algas 1939 Järvakandis, jätkus Tallinna Õpetajate Seminaris, Tallinna Õpetajate Instituudis ja Tallinna 8. Keskkoolis. 1950-1955 õppis Tartu Riiklik Ülikooli ajaloo-keeleteaduskonnas, mille lõpetas soome-ugri keelte alal. Töötanud Eesti Riiklikus Kirjastuses laste- ja noorsookirjanduse toimetajana 1955-1960 ning Eesti Televisioonis laste- ja noortesaadete toimetajana 1960-1967, seejärel kutseline kirjanik ja tõlkija. Kirjutanud 30 lasteraamatut, proosat ja luulet täiskasvanutele, tõlkinud ungari keelest, tegutsenud publitsistina ja lastekirjanduse kriitikuna. Alates 1974 Kirjanike Liidu liige. Oli abielus lastekirjanik Eno Rauaga.
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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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Aastal 1988 lõpetas ta Tallinna Kunstigümnaasiumi kunstiklassi ja 1999 Helsingi ülikooli. Samal aastal avaldas ajaleht Hyvinkään Sanomat (hiljem Aamuposti) ta esimesed lastelood. Koostöö ajalehega kestis 9 aastat iganädalaste lastelugude ja noorteföljetonide näol.
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Silvi Väljal was an Estonian book illustrator and graphic artist.
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In addition to school textbooks (for example, the 2004 Mulgi language reading " Mulgi keelen ja meelen " ), Silvi Väljal illustrated and designed Estonian children's literature classics such as Heljo Mänd , Silvia Rannamaa , Jüri Parijõgi , Elar Kuus , Venda Sõelsepp , Marta Sillaots , Iko Maran , Aino and Find Tigane ; Ellen Niit , Heino Väli , Olivia Saar . Jaak Kõdari has gained fame with illustrations by Silvi Välja in this century"Crime Stories", real fairy tales of Mulgimaa , which reached Estonian children in 2006 . -
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Jaan Kross (1920 – 2007) was an Estonian writer. He has been tipped for the Nobel Prize for Literature on several occasions for his novels, but did in fact start his literary career as a poet and translator of poetry. On his return from the labour camps and internal exile in Russia, where he spent the years 1946-1954 as a political prisoner, Kross renewed Estonian poetry, giving it new directions.
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Kross began writing prose in the latter half of the 1960s, first with a film scenario "A Livonian Chronicle" (Liivimaa kroonika) which dealt with the life of the author Balthasar Russow (1536-1600) and which also became the subject of his first masterpiece "Between Three Plagues" (Kolme katku vahel, 1970), a suit of four novels. From that time onw -
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Silvi Väljal
Silvi Väljal was an Estonian book illustrator and graphic artist.
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In addition to school textbooks (for example, the 2004 Mulgi language reading " Mulgi keelen ja meelen " ), Silvi Väljal illustrated and designed Estonian children's literature classics such as Heljo Mänd , Silvia Rannamaa , Jüri Parijõgi , Elar Kuus , Venda Sõelsepp , Marta Sillaots , Iko Maran , Aino and Find Tigane ; Ellen Niit , Heino Väli , Olivia Saar . Jaak Kõdari has gained fame with illustrations by Silvi Välja in this century"Crime Stories", real fairy tales of Mulgimaa , which reached Estonian children in 2006 . -
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Silvia Rannamaa
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Piret Raud
PIRET RAUD was born in 1971 in Tallinn, Estonia. She has studied printmaking at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since graduating in 1995 she has been living and working in Tallinn as a graphic artist, book illustrator and author. She has illustrated over 50 books, written 21 books for children and 3 novels and 2 short story collection for adults. Her books have been translated into French, English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Croatian, Albanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese and Occitan (Gascon, Languedocien and Limousin dialects).
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Piret Raud has received the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award on multiple occasions, most recently for her prose in 2023. -
Samuil Marshak
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David Hill
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He cites Maurice Gee as his favourite author, and Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy as his favourite children's authors.
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