Egon Rannet (until 1940 Eugen/Jevgeni Brükke; 29 November 1911 – 1 November 1983) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n writer. Many of his works were affected by

socialist realism Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...

. He was born in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. In the 1930s he was a member of

Vaps Movement The Vaps Movement ( et, Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Keskliit, later ''Eesti Vabadussõjalaste Liit'', ''vabadussõjalased'', or colloquially ''vapsid'', a single member of this movement was called ''vaps'') was an Estonian political organization. Fo ...

. During World War II he was in Soviet military service. Since 1947 he was a professional writer. Egon Ranneti haud

Works

* novel "Kivid ja leib" (I 1972, II 1985, III 1992, IV 1996) * short story "Tugevate tee" (1954) * short story "Kilde Taani-reisilt" (1960)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rannet, Egon 1911 births 1983 deaths Estonian male novelists Estonian dramatists and playwrights Estonian male poets Estonian screenwriters Estonian male short story writers 20th-century Estonian novelists 20th-century Estonian poets 20th-century Estonian writers Writers from Tallinn Burials at Metsakalmistu