Aira Kaal

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Aira Kaal (until 1938 Alma-Vilhelmine Kaal , from 1939 Aira Hone ; * 25 October jul. / 7 November  1911 greg. On the farm Tiidu, village Mui , today rural community Saaremaa , Saaremaa island , Estonia ; †  7 April 1988 in Tartu ) was an Estonian writer .

life and work

Aira Kaal graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tartu in 1940 . Before finishing her studies, she had already published several works of fiction.

Kaal welcomed the Soviet occupation of Estonia and the Communists' seizure of power in 1940. In the same year she joined the CPSU .

After completing her studies, Aira Kaal worked as a journalist . During the German occupation of Estonia (1941-1944) she was active behind the Soviet front.

From 1945 to 1950 Kaal was a lecturer in Marxism-Leninism . She also wrote poems in which she praised Stalin and the party. In 1951 Kaal was expelled from the CPSU. In 1955, after the de-Stalinization , she was accepted back into the party.

In October 1980 Kaal was one of the co-signers of the " Letter of Forty ". It demanded forty Estonian intellectuals by the Soviet authorities the preservation of the Estonian language , showed sympathy for the youth protests in Estonia and turned indirectly against the Kremlin policy of Russification in the Baltic States .

Aira Kaal was married to the English Romance scholar and literary scholar Arthur Robert Hone (1915–1972). He taught at the University of Tartu.

Works (selection)

essay

  • Mehe ja naise psühholoogiast (1936)

Novels

  • Mamma ja mina (1939, under the pseudonym Reet Ueilu )
  • Teelahkmel (1956)

Poetry collections

  • Ma ei anna relva käest (1945)
  • Võidurakett (1948)
  • Vaba kodumaa (1950)
  • Meretuuled (1958)
  • Valitud luuletused (anthology, 1961)
  • Üks tigu ilma majata (1968)
  • Pihlakad mere ääres (1971)
  • Hetked merega (1976)
  • Saaks kord seda imet veel vaadata (anthology, 1981)

Travelogues

  • Sajandite vangla (England, 1950)
  • Muljed ja mõtted India-sõidult (India, 1958)
  • Pilk tänapäeva Hiinasse (China, 1961)
  • Esimest korda Armeenias (Armenia, 1964)

Short prose collections

  • Kodunurga laastud (three volumes: 1966, 1970, 1978)
  • Seitse tõtt ja seitse valet (1986)

Awards

In 1971 Aira Kaal was awarded the title of "Honored Writer of the Estonian SSR ". In 1978 she received the Juhan Smuul Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 527
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 561
  3. ↑ Hone, Aira in Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK
  4. ^ Hone, Arthur Robert in Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK
  5. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 123
personal data
SURNAME Kaal, Aira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaal, Alma-Vilhelmine; Hone, Alma-Vilhelmine; Hone, Aira; Uielu, Reet (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof Tiidu, village Mui , today rural community Saaremaa Island Saaremaa , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1988
Place of death Tartu