Heiti Talvik

Heiti Talvik.

Heiti Talvik (born November 9, 1904 in Tartu , † July 18, 1947 in the Tyumen Oblast , Soviet Union , uncertain) was an Estonian poet .

Life and literary career

Heiti Talvik came from a learned family of doctors in Tartu, her mother was a pianist. In 1923 he unexpectedly left school and initially looked for work in the oil shale mining of Kohtla-Järve . At the same time he wrote poems himself, which he submitted to the cultural magazine Looming and its editor-in-chief Friedebert Tuglas .

In 1926 he made up his Abitur at the evening grammar school in Pärnu and studied from 1926 to 1934 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tartu .

Since 1928 Talvik devoted himself more and more to poetry. From 1934, with the publication of the collection of poems Palavik ( Fever ), he became one of the most famous Estonian poets and a member of the Arbujad ( Shamans ) literary group . The circle also included the poet Betti Alver , who married Talvik in 1937. The group felt committed to a deep spiritual experience of the human being as an independent being.

After the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union , Heiti Talvik was deported to Siberia in May 1945 . Then the traces are lost. He probably died in July 1947 as a result of the deportation . His grave is unknown.

Poetry collections

• "Palavik" (1934)
• "Kohtupäev" (1937)

Web links

• Poems by Heiti Talvik (Estonian)
• Life and work of Heiti Talvik (Estonian)