Kalju Kangur (25 October 1925

Vana-Kuuste Vana-Kuuste is a village in Kambja Parish, Tartu County in eastern 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 Fin ...

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– 15 January 1989) was an

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n writer and translator. He is mostly known for his numerous Russian poetry translations into Estonian. From 1939 to 1944, he studied at

Hugo Treffner Gymnasium Hugo Treffner Gymnasium ( et, Hugo Treffneri Gümnaasium; abbreviated as HTG) is a secondary school in Tartu, Estonia with special emphasis on science education. Founded by Hugo Treffner, it was the only large secondary school in 19th-century Est ...

in Tartu. From 1955, he was a professional writer. From 1950s, he was a member of

Estonian Writers' Union The Estonian Writers Union (Eesti Kirjanike Liit, abbreviated EKL), is a professional association of Estonian writers and literary critics.Marje Jõeste, Küllo Arjakas, ''The Baltic States'', Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers, 1991, page 64 Hist ...

Selected works

* 1957: poetry collection "Mööda jalgteid" ('Along the Footpaths') * 1959: poetry collection "Üksainus rukkipea" ('One Single Ear of Rye') * 1969: children book "Timbu-Limbu õukond ja lumemöldrid" ('The Court of Timbu-Limbu and the Snow-millers') * 1979: children book "Unenäod kristallkohvris" ('Dreams in a Crystal Suitcase')

References

1925 births 1989 deaths Estonian male poets Estonian children's writers 20th-century Estonian writers Estonian translators Hugo Treffner Gymnasium alumni People from Kambja Parish {{Estonia-poet-stub