Minni Nurme

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Minni Nurme (* October 17 . Jul / the 30th October  1917 greg. In the yard Kiini in the municipality Aidu, today rural community Paistu , Viljandi County , Estonia ; †  22. November 1994 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer and poet.

life and work

Minni Katharina Nurme was born as Minni Neumann in what was then Livonia . In 1936 her family name was estonized. She graduated from the girls' high school in Viljandi in 1936 .

During the Second World War she worked behind the Soviet front during the German occupation of Estonia (1941–1944) . After the war she lived as a freelance writer in Tallinn.

Minni Nurme made her debut as a prose writer in 1939 with the novel Kentaurid ("The Centaurs "). The novel Ratastool ("The Wheelchair") followed two years later .

During the war she turned more and more to poetry . In 1945 her first volume of poetry, Sünnimuld (“ Mother Earth ”), was published with intimate poems. The poems are characterized by homesickness and connections to nature. Later nature and emotional poetry as well as philosophical poems characterized her work. Between her second volume of poetry, Pikalt teelt (1947) and her third collection of poetry, Juured mullas , there was a ten-year break, mainly due to the criticism of her work by the Stalinist authorities.

Miini Nurme also worked as a literary translator from English and Finnish .

Minnu Nurme was denied greater literary fame in the Estonian SSR .

Literary work

prose

  • Centaurid (novel, 1939)
  • Ratastool (novel, 1941)
  • Lämbumine ( short stories, 1946)
  • Valus küsimus (short prose, 1962)
  • Rähni laastud (short prose, 1966)

Poetry collections

  • Sünnimuld (1945)
  • Pikalt teelt (1947)
  • Juured Mullas (1957)
  • Maarjahein (selection collection, 1967)
  • Sookailudes on loitsud (1971)
  • Kuuvein (1974)
  • Tuules Lendlev Seeme (1976)
  • Pilvede pisarad tärkamisse (selection collection, 1978)
  • Päevapuri (1981)
  • Valgevalul (1983)
  • Puud varjulised (selection collection, 1987)

Private life

Minni Nurme was the younger sister of the Estonian poet Salme Ekbaum (1912–1995). After her marriage in 1936, she was called Minni Raudsepp until 1941. In 1941 she married the Estonian writer Aadu Hint (1910–1989). In 1958 the marriage ended in divorce. Minni Nurme had three sons and two daughters. The best known is the Estonian writer Eeva Park (* 1950).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 595
  2. Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 330