Raimond Kolk

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Raimond Kolk (born February 8, 1924 in Saru, today Mõniste rural community , Võru County , Estonia ; †  November 3, 1992 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was an Estonian writer.

Life

Raimond Kolk was born the son of a community secretary near the border with Latvia . He attended schools in Saru, Valga and Tartu . Kolk completed his studies at the teachers' college in Tartu in 1943 and then worked as a teacher in Kuldre ( Urvaste rural community ). Before the Soviet occupation of Estonia , he fled to Finland in 1944 . There he served as a war volunteer in the fight against the Red Army . After the end of the Second World War he went into exile in Sweden.

From 1945 to 1958 he worked as a factory worker in Ulricehamn , Gothenburg and Stockholm before enrolling at Stockholm University in political science, economics and statistics. In 1963 he finished his studies. From 1962 he was employed in the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture. From 1972 to 1989 Kolk worked as an administrative clerk in the Uppsala Food Department .

Raimond Kolk had been married to an exile since 1947. The couple had two sons.

Literary work

Kolk published poems and short prose during his early years. In 1945 he joined the Tuulisui literary movement . In Sweden, after the war, he published numerous poems, novels and short prose in both Estonian and the South Estonian Võro dialect of his homeland. He also wrote literary studies, literary criticism and memoirs. His texts are often political and also deal with the fate of the Estonian refugees. In addition, Kolk was active in the Estonian journalism in exile. He wrote for the magazine Radikaaldemokraat and from 1948 to 1950 for the cultural magazine Sõna . From 1956 until his death he was editor of the political magazine Side . Raimond Kolk is buried in Lidingö cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Ütsik taht (poems, 1946)
  • Kõiv akna all (volume of poetry, 1952)
  • Küla põleb kahest otsast (novel, 1955)
  • Vähikuningas (children's book, 1957)
  • Müüdud sõrmus (volume of poetry, 1957)
  • Estnisk litteratur i går och i dag (literary work, 1958)
  • Sulajää (novel, 1958)
  • Väike mees, miks nutad? (Short stories and short stories, 1960)
  • August Mälk (literary work, 1964)
  • Et mitte kunagi võita (novel, 1969)
  • Mõned päevad septembris (novel, 1972)
  • Truudus elu vastu (novel, 1976)
  • Kiri (poems, 1977)
  • Tuulisui ja teised (Memories, 1980, 1992 udT: Võrumaalt Stokholmi "Tuulisui" ja teised )
  • Uskumatu Toomas (short prose, 1981)
  • Vallavanema pärandustomp (1983)
  • Võõral maal kirjutanud laulud. Luulekogumik 1940-1983 (poetry anthology, 1984)
  • Elu edeneb (novel, 1984)
  • Lestakala otsimas ja teisi jutte ( short stories, 1987)
  • Ajad muutuvad (novel, 1989)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 574f. and 616f.
  • Oskar Kruus: Kirjanik Raimond Kolk. Elukäik yes looming. Tallinn 1995, ISBN 9985-60-038-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , pp. 173f.
personal data
SURNAME Kolk, Raimond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Saru, now Mõniste Rural Municipality , Võru County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1992
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden