Raissa Kõvamees

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Raissa Kõvamees (until 1933 Raissa Kesküla , pseudonym L. Piir , * Feb. 19 . Jul / 4. March  1907 greg. In Linnuse (Muhu) ; † 18th April 1989 in Vancouver ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

Raissa Kõvamees went to school on Muhu and graduated from primary school in Liiva (Muhu) in 1922 . Later she continued her education at a community college, after which she worked in retail. At the end of the Second World War , she went from Estonia to Sweden in 1944 , and from there to Canada in 1951 . Here she settled in Vancouver, where she lived until her death.

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Kõvamees made her debut before the Second World War with short prose, which she published in magazines. However, she only gained greater fame with her novels published in exile, in which she thematizes the life of the rural population on the Estonian island of Muhu. The first two novels, which a critic called the "Chronicle or Epic of the Women of Muhu", deserve special mention. However, he and another critic complained about the large number of people who made the work confusing. Nevertheless, the two novels were also characterized in the review of a later new edition as "perfect ethnographic novel".

In her later novels, the author moved the plot to the mainland, although the main characters are from Muhu. The double novel Teela (1965) and Das Erbteil (1969) focuses on the struggle for survival of a maid at the side of an incompetent but distinctly older man. Kõvamees also wrote plays dealing with the lives of the most exiles. Her writing style has been compared to August Mälk and the Finnish-Swedish writer Sally Salminen .

bibliography

  • Kahe väina vahel ('Between two straits'). Toronto: Orto 1956. 320 pp.
  • On lindudel pesad ... ('The birds have nests ...'). Toronto: Orto 1960. 319 pp.
  • Randlased ('The Coastal Inhabitants '). Toronto: Orto 1962. 190 pp.
  • Teela ('[proper name]'). Toronto: Orto 1965. 286 pp.
  • Sõja lapsed ('children of war'). Toronto: Orto 1967. 280 pp.
  • Pärisosa ('The Inheritance '). Toronto: Orto 1969. 235 pp.
  • Oli kord ... jutte ja jutukesi möödunud aegadest ('Once upon a time ... stories and stories from times past'). Vancouver: BCLaurel 1988. 102 pp.
  • Tütarlaps kaugelt neemelt ('The girl from the distant peninsula'). Tallinn: Olion 1998. 303 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Arvo Mägi : Muhu kroonika, in: Tulimuld , 1/1961, pp. 78–79.
  • Mall Jürma: Meie naiskirjanike viimase aja loomingust, in: Mana , 2–3 / 1961, pp. 191–197.
  • Aarne Vinkel: Raissa Kõvamehe kirjanduslik töö, in: Looming 4/1987, pp. 562-564.
  • Hilve Rebane: Unistus kodust, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 7/1994, pp. 437-438.
  • Kadri door: Raamatutega läbi raudse eesriide. Raissa Kõvamehe kirjad Artur Keskülale, in: Adressaadi Dünaamika ja kirjanduse pingeväljad. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli kirjastus 2016, pp. 202–224 (Studia litteraria Estonica 18).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 254.
  2. ↑ Arvo Mägi Muhu Kroonika in: Tulimuld, 1/1961, p 78th
  3. ↑ Mall Jürma: Meie naiskirjanike viimase aja loomingust, in: Mana, 2–3 / 1961, p. 195.
  4. ↑ Ilmar Mikiver in: World Literature Today 1/1996, p. 209, similarly also in World Literature Today 4/1998, p. 873.
  5. ↑ Eesti kirjandus paguluses. XX sajandil. Toimetanud Piret Kruuspere. [Tallinn:] Eesti TA Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus 2008, p. 159.
  6. ↑ Hilve Rebane: Unistus kodust, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 7/1994, p. 437.
personal data
SURNAME Kõvamees, Raissa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kesküla, Raissa; Piir, L. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Linnuse (Muhu)
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1989
Place of death Vancouver