Silvia Airik-Priuhka (25 January 1926

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– 11 February 2014

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n writer and poetry translator. She studied at in Tallinn, finishing it in 1944. In autumn 1944, she escaped via Finland to Sweden.

Works

* ''Est! Est! Est!'' Stockholm, 1980. * ''Hammarbyhöjdeni Seppe''. Stockholm, 1983. * '' Vanaisa hingeke''. Tallinn, 1992. * ''Ilma nõela pistmata''. Tallinn, 1997. * ''Ma lillesideme võtsin''. Tallinn, 1998. * ''Toonela väraval''. Tartu, 2004.

References

External links

Silvia Airik-Priuhka at Estonian Writers' Online Dictionary
1926 births 2014 deaths Estonian women poets 20th-century Estonian women writers 21st-century Estonian women writers Estonian translators Writers from Tallinn Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to Sweden {{Estonia-writer-stub