Life and career
Born Minni Neumann, Nurme graduated from the girls' school in Viljandi in 1936. During World War II she lived behind Soviet lines; after the war she moved to Tallinn and worked as a freelance writer. Her first prose work was the 1939 novel ''Kentaurid'' (''The Centaurs''). Two years later came the novel ''Ratastool'' (''The Wheelchair''). She turned more and more to poetry during the war, and in 1945 published her first poetry collection, ''Sünnimuld'' (''Mother Earth''). Between her second and third collections came a ten-year hiatus, largely due to the harassment of Stalinist authorities. Nurme was also active as a translator, from Finnish language, Finnish and English language, English. Nurme's elder sister was the poet Salme Ekbaum. After she married Jan Raudsepp in 1936, she was known until 1941 as Minni Raudsepp. In 1941 she married the writer Aadu Hint; the marriage was dissolved in 1958, but produced five children, three sons and two daughters. The divorce was a scandal in Estonia. Of these one, Eeva Park, later became a well-known writer. Eeva Park's 1993 novel ''Tolm ja Tuul'' describes the breakup of her parents' marriage.Works
Prose
*''Kentaurid'' (novel, 1939) *''Ratastool'' (novel, 1941) *''Lämbumine'' (stories, 1946) *''Valus küsimus'' (short prose, 1962) *''Rähni laastud'' (short stories, 1966)Poetry collection
*''Sünnimuld'' (1945) *''Pikalt teelt'' (1947) *''Juured Mullas'' (1957) *''Maarjahein'' (selection, 1967) *''Sookailudes on loitsud'' (1971) *''Kuuvein'' (1974) *''Tuules lendlev seeme'' (1976) *''Pilvede pisarad tärkamisse'' (selection, 1978) *''Päevapuri'' (1981) *''Valgevalul'' (1983) *''Puud varjulised'' (selection, 1987)References
*''This article is based on a translation of the :de:Minni Nurme, corresponding article on the German Wikipedia''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nurme, Minni 1917 births 1994 deaths People from Viljandi Parish Estonian women novelists Estonian women short story writers Estonian women poets Estonian translators 20th-century Estonian women writers 20th-century Estonian novelists 20th-century Estonian poets 20th-century translators Translators to Estonian Translators from Finnish Translators from English Soviet writers