Krista Kajar

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Krista Kajar (real name Eha Pirso , born August 31, 1943 in Pärnu , † November 26, 2013 in Tallinn ), was an Estonian writer .

Life

Krista Kajar graduated from high school in 1962 and enrolled at the University of Tartu in 1963 . As an external student, she completed her degree in Estonian Philology here in 1972. She then worked as a language editor in the Ministry of Transport of the Estonian SSR until 1981 . She later worked as a freelance writer for a while. From 1985 she worked at a teacher training institute.

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Krista Kajar debuted in the 1960s in various magazines, but her first collection of poems was not published until 1982. Previously, she had the science fiction -Schauspiel Suur Eksperiment ( 'The great experiment') published, which, however, despite positive reviews largely unnoticed remained rather was staged. After that, Kajar only published two more books, so that she did not become particularly well known as an author.

However, Krista Kajar was a major writer in the self-published almanacs that appeared in Estonia during the Soviet era. Here she published some poems under the pseudonym Raja Teele, a protagonist from Oskar Luts ' famous novel Spring (1912). In 1968 the author formulated the generation conflict in a poem that appeared in the Almanac Marm , which made the "parallelism of developments and moods on this side and beyond the Iron Curtain" clear:

We
     are not to blame
          at our birth
Our century
      to have
          we are not chosen.
Self
      to have
          we didn't give each other names.
Who got us
      at all
          asked here ?.
Are our legacy
      the ideals of the fathers,
our burden
      are your
          Exploits.

Trivia

In 1988, Estonia magazine published an English translation of a poem by Krista Kajar that had previously appeared in Looming (6/1987, p. 790). The translator was the future President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves .

bibliography

  • Omaenese ukseni. Luulet 1965 1980 ('To your own door. Seal 1965-1980'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1982. 51 pp.
  • Üle halja jõe ('Across the green river'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1983. 176 pp.
  • Ühe keelega viiul. Luulet 1966 1986 ('The single-string violin. Poetry 1966-1986'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1989. 95 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Oskar Kruus: Veel üks raamat õnnetutest naistest, in: Looming 6/1983, pp. 838–841.
  • Seilates sadamata. Omakirjastus okupeeritud Eestis. Koostanud Kersti Unt yes Marja Unt. Tallinn: Varrak 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 163-164.
  2. ^ Oskar Kruus: Veel üks raamat õnnetutest naistest, in: Looming 6/1983, p. 838.
  3. ↑ Seilates sadamata. Omakirjastus okupeeritud Eestis. Koostanud Kersti Unt yes Marja Unt. Tallinn: Varrak 2012, pp. 135, 205.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : I loved an Estonian. Autobiographical Forays. Husum: ihleo 2012, p. 189.
  5. ↑ Cf. Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 618.
  6. ↑ Krista Kajar: Buses travel through Estonia ..., in: Estonia 2/1988, p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Kajar, Krista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pirso, Eha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2013
Place of death Tallinn