Science fiction and fantasy 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, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
is largely a product of the current post-Soviet era. Although somewhat earlier authors, like Eiv Eloon and , do exist.
Eesti Ulmeühing is an organization for print science fiction in Estonia that awards annual Stalker prizes. The awards are named after the
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...
film
Stalker
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that was largely shot in Estonia.
In film the works of Raul Tammet have been analyzed.
In the 1980s notable were two novels by Eiv Eloon (real name Lea Soo; born 1945
): "Kaksikliik" ('Double Species'; 1981) and "Kaksikliik 2" ('Double Species 2'; 1988). These two novels were only works by Eloon.
A selection of Estonian writers who have won multiple Stalkers
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Veiko Belials
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Meelis Friedenthal
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Indrek Hargla - Pen-name for Indrek Sootak, he also writes
detective fiction
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as s ...
that has been translated to English.
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Leo Kunnas
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The novel ''
The Man Who Spoke Snakish'' by
Andrus Kivirähk
Andrus Kivirähk (born 17 August 1970) is an Estonian writer, a playwright, topical satirist, and screenwriter. As of 2004, 25,000 copies of his novel ''Rehepapp ehk November'' (''Old Barny or November'') had been sold, making him the most popul ...
was awarded the Stalker award in 2008.
Stalker Award for Science Fiction 2008
Estonian Literature Centre.
References
Further reading
* Andrus Org
''Eesti ulmekirjanduse žanrid ja nende poeetika''
(The Genre System of Estonian Fantastic Fiction and its Poetics, PhD thesis). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017. (Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis 16.)
* Andrus Org. The Dimensions of the Contemporary Science Fiction Novel on the Basis of Examples from Estonian Literature.
''Interlitteraria'' 2004, No 9
pp. 226–237.
* Andrus Org
Fantastic fiction in Estonian literature: fields of genres and their sources of influence.
In: Martin Carayol (Ed.). ''Le fantastique et la science-fiction en Finlande et en Estonie''. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012, pp. 35–45. (Bibliothèque finno-ougrienne 23.)
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