Kalju Kruusa (real name Jaanus Valk; born 10 October 1973, 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 ' ...

) is 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, editor and translator. From 1993, he is studying at University of Tartu,

Tallinn University Tallinn University (TLU; et, Tallinna Ülikool, ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education ...

and Waseda University (Tokyo). In 2008, he defended his BA thesis on the French symbolist poet

Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé ( , ; 18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), pen name of Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of ...

. He is one of the founders of the literary group Erakkond ('Hermitkind'), established in 1996. With

Hasso Krull Hasso Krull (born 1964 in Tallinn) is an Estonian poet, literary and cultural critic, and translator. Krull's main points of focus in his work have been postmodernism and post-structuralism. His topics include history, philosophy, literature, a ...

, he founded in 2001 the poetry e-magazine ''Ninniku'', being its co-editor until 2010.

Works

* 1999: poetry collection "Meeleolu" ('Frame of Mind') * 2004: poetry collection "Treffamisi" ('Encounters') * 2010: poetry collection "Tühhja" ('Nothing') * 2015: poetry collection "Äädikkärbsed" ('Fruit Flies')

References

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