Armin Kõomägi

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Armin Kõomägi will read on World Book Day (23 April 2010) in Tallinn

Armin Kõomägi (born July 5, 1969 in Floreşti , USSR ) is an Estonian writer .

Life

Kõomägi was born in Moldova, where his mother, who had an Armenian father and a Polish mother, grew up. His father is Estonian and Kõomägi came to Tallinn as a baby . There he went to school from 1976 to 1984, then from 1984 to 1988 he trained as a computer technician at the Tallinn Polytechnic.

From 1988 to 1990 he did his military service in the Soviet Army , since Estonia was still occupied by the Soviet Union at that time . From 1990 to 1995, Kõomägi studied economics at the Tallinn University of Technology.

Literary work

Kõomägi made his debut with short stories in Looming in 2005 and presented his first collection of novels in the same year. It was highly praised by Andrus Kivirähk : “Yes, actually an indecent and filthy book, but I like that. I will definitely continue to dine at Kõomägi. No funky three-star restaurant for gourmets, but also no pigsty for proletarians, despite all the seeming popularity. A successful pub with cold schnapps and pickles. Always keep a table free for me. "

His second volume of short stories was also rated relatively positively, although there was no lack of critical voices. One critic saw similarities with Andrus Kivirähk and Kaur Kender .

With his third book, Kõomägi switched to Romangenre . Here the critics discovered parallels to Mati Unt . In his fourth book, The Good Company (2011), the first-person narrator is a company in 2022 that makes a sarcastic commentary on present-day Estonia. Again the novel was compared with the work of Kaur Kender, but also with Raimond Kaugver , who was very popular at the time , and one critic believed he could notice similarities to Michel Houellebecq .

His greatest success to date was the novel Lui Vutoon (2015), which won the Estonian Writers' Union's novel competition . Like The Good Company , this novel also has science fiction features and is set in a world in which there are no longer any people.

Translations

So far there are two books in Russian by Kõomägi:

  • Дебил (selection of short stories). 2014
  • Хорошая фирма ( The good company ). 2015

There are also a few stories in English and Finnish.

Awards

bibliography

  • Amatöör ('The Amateur'). Tallinn: Pegasus 2005. 255 pp.
  • Nägu, mis jäi üle ('The face that was left'). [Tallinn:] Pegasus 2006. 167 pp.
  • Pagejad ('The Refugees'). Pärnu: Jumalikud ilmutused 2009. 192 pp.
  • Hea firma ('The good company'). [Pärnu]: Ji 2011. 150 pp.
  • Minu Mustamäe ('My Mustamäe'). Tallinn: Tuum 2013. 271 pp.
  • Lui Vutoon ('Lui Vutoon'). Tallinn: Tuum 2015. 286 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Andrus Kivirähk: Kõomäe kõrts, in: Looming 12/2005, pp. 1902–1904.
  • Veiko Märka : Jutud, mis jäid üle, in: Looming 7/2007, pp. 1105–1108.
  • Kadri Tüür: Mis jäi üle, in: Vikerkaar 9/2007, pp. 136-139.
  • Mihkel Mutt : Teise raamatu sündroom, in: Looming 10/2009, pp. 1441–1443.
  • Peeter Helme : Kõvasti nalja ning tuleleek, rusikas ja viitsütikuga pomm, in: Looming 3/2012, pp. 433–435.
  • Leo Luks: Pikaks venitatud följeton, in: Vikerkaar 7-8 / 2012, pp. 187–188.
  • Indrek Hargla : Urbanistliku künismi meistritöö, in: Looming 12/2013, pp. 1707–1709.
  • Sveta Grigorjeva: Kes kardab Armin Kõomäge ?, in: Vikerkaar 7-8 / 2014, pp. 176–178.
  • Daniel Vaarik: Mis saab, kui asjad ara võtta, in: Vikerkaar 12/2015, pp. 94–97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrus Kivirähk: Kõomäe Kõrts in: Looming 12/2005, pp 1902-1904.
  2. ↑ Veiko Märka: Jutud, mis jäid üle, in: Looming 7/2007, pp. 1105-1108.
  3. ↑ Kadri Tüür: Mis jäi üle, in: Vikerkaar 9/2007, pp. 136-139.
  4. ↑ Mihkel Mutt: Teise raamatu sündroom, in: Looming 10/2009, pp. 1441–1443.
  5. ↑ Leo Luks: Pikaks venitatud följeton in: Vikerkaar 7-8 / 2012, pp 187-188.
  6. ↑ Peeter Helme: Kõvasti nalja ning tuleleek, rusikas ja viitsütikuga pomm, in: Looming 3/2012, p. 435.
  7. ↑ Daniel Vaarik: Mis saab, kui asjad era võtta in: Vikerkaar 12/2015, pp 94-97.
  8. ↑ Muistikatko, in: Nippernaati 1 (2015), 133-145.
personal data
SURNAME Kõomägi, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Florești (Republic of Moldova)