Maria Lee Liivak

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Maria Lee Liivak (as a writer Maria Lee , born December 28, 1984 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian poet and dramaturge.

life and work

Maria Lee was born to the poet Doris Kareva and the translator Lembit Liivak and grew up in Tallinn. From 2004 to 2008 she studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Drama and then worked for several years as a dramaturge at the Tallinn City Theater .

She made her debut in 2007 with the volume Der Weggedanke , which already uses a neologism in its title, which the author explained as follows: "A Weggedanke says that you think certain things out of yourself and get rid of them." The reviews praised her "masterly handling" with the word and saw parallels with Charles Baudelaire . Her older colleague Jürgen Rooste emphasized that one can see from the poetry that someone here didn't jump out of bed in the morning and feel like writing poetry, but that Maria Lee's “texts are more the result of something being experienced, a distance has been traveled. "your careful handling of the word can also be found in the fact that they only one has submitted additional collection of poems and published only sporadically new poems in magazines.

bibliography

  • Äramõte (The thought of the way) . Tallinn: Verb 2007. 44 pp.
  • Stereomeetria (stereometry) . Tallinn: Verb 2012. 80 pp.

Literature on the author

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to the author in a conversation with Kätlin Kaldmaa ( Eesti Päevaleht , January 25, 2008, accessed December 28, 2018, Estonian)
  2. ↑ Mareliin Vassenin: Avatakt, in: Vikerkaar 9/2008, p. 101.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Rooste: Laibad, armastus ja kohvihommikud enne maailma lõppu, in: Looming 3/2008, pp. 459-460.
personal data
SURNAME Liivak, Maria Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lee, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn