Maie Kalda (19 June 1929 – 8 November 2013) 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 literary scholar and critic. Kalda was born in

Väike-Maarja Väike-Maarja is a Populated places in Estonia, small borough ( et, alevik) in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Väike-Maarja Parish. Väike-Maarja Church was initially built as a fortress church. Climate No ...

, the daughter of the writer Madde Kalda. In 1956 she graduated from Tartu State University in Estonian philology. Since 1956 she worked at Estonian SSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Language and Literature, and its successor Under and Tuglas Literature Centre. In 1980, she was one of the signatories of the

Letter of 40 intellectuals The Letter of 40 intellectuals, also The letter of 40 ( et, Neljakümne kiri), originally A public letter from Estonian SSR ( et, Avalik kiri Eesti NSV-st) was a public letter dated October 28, 1980 and posted a week later, in which 40 intellectual ...

. In 2001 she was awarded the

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

, IV class.

Works

* "History of Estonian Literature" (1965-1991). One of the authors * monograph "Debora ja vennad". Tallinn-Tartu: The Research Group of Cultural and Literary Theory, 2010, 472 pp. bout Debora Vaarandi. * "Teet Kallas's Tallinn". – Virve Sarapik, Kadri Tüür (eds), Koht ja paik/Place and Location III. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Arts 14. Tallinn: 2003, pp 379–393. * "Estonian Literary Slum." – Virve Sarapik, Kadri Tüür, Mari Laanemets (eds), Koht ja paik/Place and Location II. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Arts 10. Tallinn: 2002, pp 389–406. * "Über makkaronische Dichtungsart in Estland". – Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; section A, no 4–5, 1996, pp 1–10. * "Estnischsprachige Übersetzungsanthologien" – eine Auswahl. – Jynos Gulya, Norbert Lossau (eds), Anthologie und interkulturelle Rezeption. Opuscula Fenno-Ugrica Gottingensia Bd VI. Frankfurt am Main: 1994, pp 27–36.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalda, Maie 1929 births 2013 deaths Estonian literary scholars Estonian literary critics Estonian women literary critics Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class University of Tartu alumni People from Väike-Maarja