Richard Janno

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Richard Janno (pseudonyms Juhan Pahlbärk , Eduard Lilienthal , Tristan , Koterman , * December 29, 1899 July / January 10,  1900 greg. In Tallinn ; † December 29, 1942 in Elva ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

Janno went to school in Tallinn until 1919 and then took part in the Estonian War of Freedom as a volunteer . From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the University of Helsinki , from 1921 to 1928 at the University of Tartu each in the philosophical faculty, but without graduating. At the same time he worked from 1922 to 1927 as an Estonian teacher at a high school in Tartu . From 1928 he was a columnist for the Postimees newspaper . In 1936 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and he moved to Elva, where he lived as a freelancer until his death.

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Janno made his debut in 1929 with a novel set in a student environment and won second prize in the Loodus publishing house's novel competition. Here, an Estonian, who is enthusiastic about their original kinship, brings a Mordwinen to Tartu , “in order to make him a civilized person in his eyes.” The novel was also published in 1930 in a Finnish translation. His next novels, as in some cases his debut, are said to have “feuilletonistic lightness”. Janno also wrote two detective novels, The Blue Envelope (1931) and Hinterrücks (1933).

He had his greatest success, however, in youth literature, where he is seen as one of the "most mature realists next to Jüri Parijõgi ". In particular, his story Die Fußballjungs (1935) was praised and also called "interesting for adult readers" and compared with Oskar Luts .

Awards

  • 1929 Second prize in the Loodus publishing house's novel competition.

bibliography

Novels and short stories

  • Metsmees ('The Wild One '). Tartu: Loodus 1929. 216 pp.
  • Neitsi Maaria ('The Virgin Mary'). Tartu: Loodus 1930. 112 pp.
  • Sinine ümbrik ('The Blue Envelope'). Tartu: Postimees 1931. 153 pp.
  • Valeraha ('counterfeit money'). Tartu: Postimees 1933. 217 pp.
  • Selja tagant ('from behind'). Tartu: Loodus 1933. 160 pp.
  • Kaks ja üksainus ('two and one'). Tartu: Eesti Kirjastuse Cooperative 1937. 171 pp.

Children's and young people's literature

  • Kuningas Toom ('King Toom'). Tallinn: Eesti Õpetajate Liit 1931. 92 pp.
  • Vutimehed ('The Soccer Boys '). Tartu: Eesti Kirjastuse Cooperative 1935. 150 pp.
  • Kassisaba poisid ('The boys from the cat's tail'). 1942, but not published until 1974 together with the fourth edition of the football boys .

Literature on the author

  • Artur Adson : R. Janno: Vutimehed, in: Looming 1/1936, pp. 100-102.
  • Romulus Tiitus: Richard Jannot mäletades, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/1969, pp. 48–51.
  • E Parek: Mälestusi Richard Jannost, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 10/1971, pp. 621–623.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 141.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 492.
  3. ↑ Eesti kirjanduse ajalugu. IV köide, 1st raamat. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1981, p. 437.
  4. ↑ Reet crusts: Eesti Lastekirjandus. Tartu: Elmatar 1995, pp. 141-142.
  5. ^ So Artur Adson in: Looming 1/1936, p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Janno, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pahlbärk, Juhan; Lilienthal, Eduard; Tristan; Koterman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1942
Place of death Elva