Arved Viirlaid

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Arved Viirlaid (born April 11, 1922 in Padise Parish , Harju County , Estonia , † June 21, 2015 in Mount Forest, Wellington County , Ontario ) was an Estonian writer and poet .

Life

Arved Viirlaid graduated from high school in Tallinn in 1941 . He then worked as a technical editor at the Estonian Publishing Association (Eesti Kirjastuse Ühisus) in Tallinn. In 1943/44 he fought as a volunteer on the Finnish side in the Second World War against the Soviet Union . After the war, Viirlaid had to flee to Sweden from the Soviets . From 1945 to 1953 he lived in England , then in Canada . There he became a politically active writer in exile, whose works were also translated into English, French and Swedish, and spread.

Literary work

He began his literary work as a poet. The war years and life as a refugee play a central role in his first collections of poetry. Viirlaid also wrote love poetry in Estonian . His writing breakthrough came as a prose writer. He dedicated himself above all to educating the West about what happened in the Baltic States during World War II and the subsequent Soviet occupation of the Baltic States. The resistance movement of the forest brothers (metsavennad) plays just as big a role in Viirlaid as the Soviet gulags and life in forced exile .

Works

Poetry collections

  • "Hulkuri evangeelium" (1948)
  • "Üks suveõhtune naeratus" (1949)
  • "Jäätunud peegel" (1962)
  • "Hõllalaulud" (1967)
  • "Käsikäes" (1978)
  • "Igaviku silmapilgutus" (1982)
  • "Valgus rahnude all" (1990)

Novels

  • "Tormiaastad" (two volumes, 1949)
  • "Ristideta hauad" (two volumes, 1952)
  • "Seitse kohtupäeva" (1957)
  • "Vaim ja ahelad" (trilogy, 1961)
  • "Kustuvad tuled" (1965)
  • "Sadu jõkke" (1965)
  • "Kes tappis Erich Hormi?" (1961)
  • "Onnenud ei loe "(1975)
  • "Märgitud" (1980)

Collection of novels

  • "Saatuse sõlmed" (1993)

literature

  • Hellar Grabbi : "Eerik Heine saaga ja Arved Viirlaiu romaanid" In: Looming (2007, No. 1), pp. 112–124

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suri Arved Viirlaid (Estonian)
  2. ↑ Canadas suri tuntud kirjanik Arved Viirlaid (Pealinn, June 25, 2015, Estonian)

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personal data
SURNAME Viirlaid, Arved
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Padise Parish , Harju County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2015
Place of death Mount Forest, Wellington County , Ontario