Maarja Pärtna

Maarja Pärtna is a writer, translator, and editor. She was born in 1986 in northeastern Estonia. Pärtna has studied English language and literature at the University of Tartu and defended her master's degree in world literature. Her first collection "Rohujuurte juures" (At the Grassroots) was published in 2010.

Pärtna's writing addresses social-ecological themes. Her fourth collection of poems, "Vivaarium" (Vivarium, 2019), combines historical trauma with climate anxiety and articulates a growing sense of danger coming from biodiversity loss. "Vivaarium" delves further into poetry that has begun to be dominated by environmental concerns and the time-pressured cycle of human ecological decisions. An English pamphlet with the same title was al

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Olen sündinud, kasvanud ja loen jätkuvalt rohkem raamatuid, kui kirjutan.
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Tõnis Vilu (1988) is a poet currently residing in Tartu, Estonia.

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Two-time winner of the Gustav Suits poetry prize (with Kink psühholoogile (2016) and Kõik linnud valgusele (2022)) and the recipient of the Annual Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (with Tundekasvatus (2020)).

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Kalju Kruusa

Kalju Kruusa (kodanikunimi Jaanus Valk) on eesti luuletaja ja tõlkija. Kalju Kruusa lõpetas 1992 Tallinna 20. Keskkooli ja astus aasta pärast Tartu Ülikooli, kus õppis 1993–1997 inglise filoloogiat ja semiootikat. Aastal 1997 läks ta Eesti Humanitaarinstituuti romanistika erialale ja lõpetas Tallinna Ülikooli 2008 bakalaureusetööga "Mallarmé luule: kogelemine". Aastatel 2004–2005 viibis ta vahetusüliõpilasena Tōkyōs Waseda ülikoolis ja õppis jaapani keelt.
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Alice Zeniter

Alice Zeniter is a French novelist, translator, scriptwriter, dramatist and director.

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Zeniter published her first novel, Deux moins un égal zéro, at the age of 16. Her second novel, Jusque dans nos bras, was published in 2010 and translated in English as Take This Man.

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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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Kairi Look

Kairi Look on eesti kirjanik. Ta kirjutab lasteraamatuid ja proosat täiskasvanutele, novell "Relaps" on pälvinud Loomingu aastapreemia. Ta raamatuid on tõlgitud mh saksa, prantsuse, poola ja soome keelde. Ta on tõlkinud eesti keelde hollandi laste- ja noortekirjandust. Ta on ta Koolibri uue aabitsa autor.

Kairi Look is an Estonian writer. She writes children's books and prose, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. Many of her kidsbooks have been translated and awarded. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella.

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