Ain Kalmus (given name Evald Mänd; 8 June 1906

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– 15 November 2001) was an

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n writer and theologian. From 1925 to 1929, he studied at the Baptist Evangelical Seminary at

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. After that he finished

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(in the United States), defending his master's thesis. After returning from the United States, he worked as a Baptist minister in

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and Southern Estonia, later also as a pastor in Tallinn. In 1944, he and his family escaped to Sweden and in 1946, to the United States.

Works

* 1942: ''Soolased tuuled'' (Salty Winds), novel * 1945: ''Öö tuli liiga vara'' (Night Came Too Early), novel * 1948: ''Hingemaa'' (Land of Spirits), novel * 1950: ''Prohvet'' (Prophet, or The Unfaithful), novel * 1969: ''Juudas'' (Judas), novel

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalmus, Ain 1906 births 2001 deaths Estonian male writers 20th-century Estonian writers Estonian theologians 20th-century Baptist ministers People from Hiiumaa Parish Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to the United States