Ene Mihkelson

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Ene Mihkelson (2010)

Ene Mihkelson (born October 21, 1944 in Tammeküla, Imavere municipality , Järva county , Estonian SSR ; † September 20, 2017 in Tartu ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

At the age of five, Ene Mihkelson lost her parents, who retired as partisans to the Estonian forests in 1949 and fought against the Soviet occupation of Estonia. Her father was killed in the process. Ene Mihkelson lived with an aunt during elementary school and later graduated from a boarding school.

Ene Mihkelson studied Estonian Philology at the University of Tartu from 1963 to 1968 . After graduating, she worked as a teacher for a year and then worked at the Estonian Literature Museum in Tartu until 1979 . Since 1979 she has lived in Tartu as a freelance writer.

She published her first collection of poems in 1978; then she alternated lyric and prose works. She was also active as a critic. Her novels, which combine the present and the past, deal mainly with the history of the Estonians in the second half of the 20th century, with their own experiences being woven in. Mihkelson was repeatedly compared to Christa Wolf because of her way of dealing with traumatic childhood and adolescence experiences .

Prices

  • 1976 annual award from the literary magazine Looming
  • 1983 annual award from the literary magazine Looming
  • 1991 Annual Prize from the Estonian Writers' Union
  • 1994 Juhan Liiv Prize
  • 1999 Juhan Liiv Prize
  • 2001 Literature Prize of the Estonian Cultural Capital
  • 2002 Valgetäne IV classi teenetemärk (Estonian Order)
  • 2006 Herder Prize
  • 2007 Annual Prize of the Estonian Cultural Capital
  • 2008 AH Tammsaare Literature Prize from the Albu community
  • 2010 Literature Prize of the Baltic Assembly
  • 2011 Gustav Suits Scholarship
  • 2013 honorary citizen of the city of Tartu

Works

Volumes of poetry

  • Selle talve laused (“This Winter's Sentences”), Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1978
  • Ring ja nelinurk ("Circle and Square"), Eesti Raamat, 1979
  • Algolekud (“ Primordial States ”), Eesti Raamat, 1980
  • Tuhased tiivad ("ash wings "), Eesti Raamat, 1982
  • Igiliikuja ("Perpetuum mobile"), Eesti Raamat, 1985
  • Tulek on su saatus (“The arrival is your destiny”), Eesti Raamat, 1987
  • Elujoonis ("Life Drawing "), Eesti Raamat, 1989
  • Võimalus õunast loobuda (“The ability to forego an apple”), Eesti Raamat, 1990
  • Hüüdja ​​hääl. Luuletusi 1988–1991 (“The Voice of the Caller”), Eesti Raamat, 1993
  • Pidevus neelab üht nuga ("Resistance swallows a knife"), Tuum, Tallinn, 1997
  • Kaalud ei kõnele: valitud luuletusi 1967–97 (“The scales don't speak”), Tuum, 2000
  • Uroboros (Tuum, 2004)
  • Torn ("The Tower", Varrak, 2010)
  • Kõik redelid on tagurpidi. Valik luuletusi 1976-2010 ("All ladders are reversed", Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2016)

prose

  • Matsi põhi ("Farmer's Ground"), Eesti Raamat, 1983
  • Kuju keset väljakut (“A statue in the middle of the square”), Eesti Raamat, 1983
  • Korter ("The Apartment"), Eesti Raamat, 1985
  • Nime vaev ("The Burden of the Name"), Ilmamaa, Tartu, 1994
  • Surma sünnipäev. Novella ja laaste ("Birthday of Death"), Tuum, 1996
  • Ahasveeruse uni ("The Sleep of Ahasver"), Tuum, 2001
  • Katkuhaud (“The Plague Grave ”), Varrak, Tallinn, 2007

Literary criticism

  • Kirjanduse seletusi. Artikleid ja retsensioone 1973–1983 ("literature explanations "), Eesti Raamat, 1986

German translations

Poetry selections in:

  • in: Life is still new - anthology . Translated by Gisbert Jänicke . Karlsruhe 1992, pp. 53-62
  • in Estonia , Journal for Estonian Literature 2/1995, pp. 40–49. Translated by Gisbert Jänicke
  • edit 12/1996
  • in Ostragehege 1/1997, pp. 22-23. Translated by Irja Grönholm
  • in The Freedom of Potato Sprouts. Poetry from Estonia. Edited by Gregor Laschen. Bremerhaven 1999, pp. 109-125. New poems by Friedrich Christian Delius, Gregor Laschen, Johann P. Tammen and Ralf Thenior
  • in Lichtungen 2003, p. 3, pp. 72–73. Translated by Gisbert Jänicke
  • in estonia 2006, pp. 163-167. Translated by Gisbert Jänicke

Literature on Ene Mihkelson

  • Gisbert Jänicke: Writing is an adventure in language , in: Estonia 2/1995, pp. 36–39.
  • Beate Biehl: Time and Space in Ene Mihkelson's Deemonite demokraatia , in: Acta Baltica 34 (1996), pp. 273-278.
  • Tiina Kirss: On Weighing the Past: Coping with the Past and the Prose of Ene Mihkelson and Christa Wolf, in: interlitteraria 10/2005, pp. 196-216.
  • Eva Rein: A Comparative Study of Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni in the Light of Trauma Theory , in: interlitteraria 10/2005, pp. 217-229.
  • Cornelius Hasselblatt : distance, bitterness, grotesque. Cultures of remembrance in Estonian prose, in: osteuropa 2008, no. 6, pp. 417–427.
  • Aija Sakova-Merivee: The Darkness of the Past in Ene Mihkelson's novel Katkuhaud , in: interlitteraria 18/2 (2013), 517-533, plague grave, 2007.
  • Aija Sakova-Merivee: Digging and Remembering. Thought images of memory and moral testimony in the work of Ene Mihkelson and Christa Wolf (= Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis , Volume 13), University of Tartu Press (Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus), Tartu 2014, ISBN 978-9949-32-727 -0 (online dissertation University of Tartu 2014, 172 pages, ISBN 978-9949-32-728-7 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suri kirjanik Ene Mihkelson1 . Postimees , September 20, 2017, accessed September 21, 2017 (Estonian).
personal data
SURNAME Mihkelson, Ene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tammeküla, Imavere parish , Järva county, Estonian SSR
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2017
Place of death Tartu