Ilmi Kolla (4 April 1933

Pärnu Pärnu () is the fourth largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet ...

– 18 December 1954

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 '' ...

) 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 poet. In 1950, she become a member of the Pärnu department of the Young Authors' Association. In 1952, she worked on the editorial board of the youth newspaper '' Säde''. She died in 1954 because of

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, i ...

. She is buried at Surju Cemetery. Her poetry collections were published posthumously. Several of her poems were set to music.

Works

* 1957: poetry collection "Luuletused" * 1957: poetry collection "Minu kevad" * 1957: poetry collection "Kõik mu laulud" (compiled by Eve Annuk)

References

1933 births 1954 deaths Estonian women poets Estonian women writers 20th-century Estonian poets People from Pärnu 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in the Soviet Union {{Estonia-poet-stub