Erni Hiir (real name Ernst Hiir; 29 March 1900, in

Karjatnurme Karjatnurme is a village in Tõrva Parish, Valga County in 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, t ...

Kreis Fellin Kreis Fellin (''Viljandi kreis'', ''Феллинский уезд'') was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate (in present-day southern Estonia). I ...

– 27 October 1989) was an

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n poet and translator. From 1921 to 1922 he studied at the

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. From 1927, he was a member of

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. When Estonia was occupied in 1940, he was loyal to the Soviet authorities. From 1945 to 1960, he was the executive secretary of the Tartu branch of the Writers' Union. In 1962, he moved to

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. He is buried in

Metsakalmistu Cemetery Metsakalmistu (meaning ''Forest Cemetery'') is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn. Metsakalmistu was originally planned to be a public medieval cemetery. Eduard Vilde was the first to be buried in 1933. The original area of the cemet ...

Works

* 1924: poetry collection "Arlekinaad" ('Harlequinade') * 1924: poetry collection "Huhu. Merituulen" ('Huhu. In the Sea Wind') * 1926: poetry collection "Meeri-Maria-Mari"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hiir, Erni 1900 births 1989 deaths People from Tõrva Parish People from Kreis Fellin Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Estonian male poets 20th-century Estonian writers Estonian translators University of Tartu alumni Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence Soviet military personnel of World War II Honoured Writers of the Estonian SSR Burials at Metsakalmistu