Erika Esop

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Erika Esop (born Müller , 1935–1952 Erika Möldre , pseudonym together with the author Ira Lember Artur Erich , born June 2, 1927 in Tallinn , † December 24, 1999 ibid) was an Estonian writer and children's book author .

Life

Erika Esop attended the English private college in Tallinn from 1935 to 1940 and then until 1946 the Tallinn commercial high school for girls, which since 1944 has been known as the "Technical College for Accounting and Planned Economics". After graduating, she learned various foreign languages ​​(English, German, Finnish) at the Tallinn teachers' seminar, while at the same time she was already working as an accountant in a cooperative. In this profession she worked in various positions until 1983, after which she lived as a freelance writer in Tallinn.

Erika Esop had been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1988 .

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Esop published her first children's poems in a magazine in 1961 and her first children's book that same year. In quick succession, the author published further volumes of poetry, which were soon followed by prose books. In them she brought the past of Estonia closer to the young readership, for example in the novel The Rich Girl (1995), which provides an “exciting story from the time of the first Estonian republic”.

In her novels for adults, too, political history is linked to family history, as one critic noted.

Awards

bibliography

Children's and young people's literature

  • Päikesepüüdja ('The Sun Hunter'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1961. 25 pp.
  • Kes seal rassib ('Who is raging?'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1964. 20 pp.
  • Kaie sussid ('Kais Puschen'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1967. 12 pp.
  • Kes me oleme ('Who are we'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1969. 29 pp.
  • Naerulind ('The Laughing Bird'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1975. 32 pp.
  • Jõhvikavärvija ('The Cranberry Painter '). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1979. 40 pp.
  • Take care of keerusaia ('ten croissants'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1982. 56 pp.
  • Valge peaga poiss ('The blonde boy'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1983. 60 pp.
  • Rubiku kuubik ja mina ('The Rubik 's Cube and I'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1986. 93 pp.
  • Spordipäev metsas ('A sports day in the forest'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1987.
  • Lõbus tuul ('The Merry Wind'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1988. 110 pp.
  • Jõulusoov ('Christmas wish '). Tallinn: Ilo 1993. 24 pp.
  • Lend start ('flight start'). Tallinn: October 1993. 43 pp.
  • Soolaröövlite koopas. Paadikuuri vang ('In the cave of the salt robbers. The prisoner of the boat shed'). Tallinn: Kupar 1994. 126 pp.
  • Mustmurilased ('The Black Dogs '). Rapla: Graafiline Produktioon 1994. 43 pp.
  • Rikas tüdruk ('The Rich Girl'). Tallinn: Olion 1995. 159 pp.
  • Pildinõid ('The Picture Witch'). Tallinn: sn 1995. 39 pp.
  • Laps loeb salmi ('The child reads a poem'). Tallinn: Huma 1996. 40 pp.
  • Rätiku Roosi ('The Cloth Roosi'). Kuressaare: Tormikiri 1998. 31 pp.
  • Pikk naine ('The Big Woman'). Kuressaare: Tormikiri 1999. 85 pp.

Novels

  • Magamata ööd ('Sleepless Nights'). Tallinn: Aleksandra 1992. 206 pp.
  • Patu hind ('The price of sin'). Kuressaare: Tormikiri 2000. 191 pp.

He wrote novels together with Ira Lember under the pseudonym Artur Erich

  • Äike ('The Thunderstorm'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1991. 223 pp.
  • Pärast äikest ('After the thunderstorm'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1995. 246 pp.
  • Välgust tabatud (' Struck by lightning'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1996. 214 pp.
  • Varjud ('shadow'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1999. 215 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Oskar Kruus : Poliitilise js perekonnaromaani hübrid, in: Sirp July 30, 1993, p. 5.
  • Eerik Teder: Meenutades Erika Esopit, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 3/2000, p. 226.
  • Ira Lember: Viimane kiri sõbrale, in: Looming 4/2000, pp. 635–636.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 83-84.
  2. ↑ Jaanika Palm (ed.): Eesti laste- ja noorsookirjandus 1991-2012. s. l. Eesti Lastekirjanduse Keskus 2014, p. 77.
  3. ↑ Oskar Kruus: Poliitilise yes perekonnaromaani hübrid in: Sirp July 30, 1993, p. 5
  4. ↑ These are the first names of the fathers of the authors, s. Ira Lember: Viimane kiri sõbrale, in: Looming 4/2000, p. 636.
personal data
SURNAME Esop, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Erika; Möldre, Erika; Erich, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian prose writer and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1999
Place of death Tallinn