Lilli Promet (16 February 1922 – 16 February 2007) was an

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n author.

Life

Promet was born in Petseri to the Estonian painter Aleksander Promet. After graduating from Tallinn Primary School No. 18, she entered the State Industrial Art School in 1935, from which she graduated in spring 1940. In autumn, she was asked to work at the newspaper ''

Noorte Hääl ''Noorte Hääl'' (meaning ''Voice of Youth'' in English) was a daily newspaper published in Estonia between 1940 and 1995. History Before the independence of Estonia, ''Noorte Hääl'' was owned by the Estonian branch of the Komsomol, the Le ...

''. After the outbreak of World War II, she and her family were forced to leave their home and evacuated to

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. In summer 1943, Promet went to work at Estonian-language radio in blockaded Leningrad. From 1944 to 1951, she worked as a journalist in Tallinn. Promet died on her 85th birthday in

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. She is buried at the Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn. She was married to writer

Ralf Parve Ralf Parve (until 1978 Ralf Perman; 25 June 1919 in Rakvere – 29 April 2011 in Tallinn) was an Estonian writer. He used several pseudonyms: Nähvits, Mart Raju, and Rahula Pärn, as well as the SMERSh and KGB agent name Peiker. In the 1940s, he ...

(1919–2011). Their son Ralf R. Parve (1946–2008) was a journalist and politician.

Filmography

*''Roosa kübar'' (1963) *''Tütarlaps mustas'' (1966) *''Pimedad aknad'' (1968)

Books

The following is a partial list of works published by Lilli PrometBookFinder's List of Lilli Promet publications
/ref> *''Roosa kübar'' (1961) *''Meesteta küla'' (1962, novel) *''Lamav tiiger'' (1964) *''Kes levitab anekdoote?'' (1967) *''Iibelpuu'' (1970) *''Primavera'' (1971, novel) *''Raamita pildid (1976, essays) *''A Summer's Painting and Other Stories'' (1984) *''Õhtusel alleel'' (1989) *''Iisabel: Romaan'' (1992) *''Aheldatud muusa'' (1997)

References

1922 births 2007 deaths People from Pechory 20th-century Estonian women writers 21st-century Estonian women writers Soviet writers Honoured Writers of the Estonian SSR Burials at Metsakalmistu {{Estonia-writer-stub