Tõnis Lehtmets

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Tõnis Lehtmets (born October 22, 1937 in Rakvere ) is an Estonian writer .

Life

Tõnis Lehtmets graduated from high school in Rakvere in 1956 and studied Estonian philology at the University of Tartu from 1956 to 1961 . Then he was Tartu correspondent for a Tallinn newspaper and from 1963 to 1972 literary editor at the Tartu newspaper Edasi . From 1974 to 1985 he was employed by the Tartu Section of the Estonian Writers' Union.

Tõnis Lehtmets has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1962 and lives in Tartu .

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Lehtmets' poetry is close to nature and focuses on country life, which the criticism of the time praised. In his later prose, the author often laments urbanization after the Second World War. His novel Der düstere Urwald (1978) caused a sensation , in which the years 1947 to 1949 were described in an Estonian forest village when the Second World War, from which the village was largely spared, was over, but the “post-war many Years smoldered in these forests. ”This meant the partisan war of the Forest Brothers, which, however, was not allowed to be named in the literary criticism of the time.

bibliography

  • Esimesed värsid ('First Verses'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1960. 91 pp.
  • Tanavad yes tanumad. Luuletusi aastaist 1959-1961 ('Streets and ways. Poems from the years 1959-1961'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1962. 96 pp.
  • Kodumurul. Luuletused ('On the home lawn. Poems'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1966. 75 pp.
  • Kohtumine vanaema aias ('Meeting in Grandmother's Garden'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1966. 264 pp.
  • Pakane ('Frost'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1967. 87 pp.
  • Lõkkemõtted ('Campfire Thoughts '). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1974. 86 pp.
  • Margapuuga mõõdetud maa. Jutustusi ('The land measured with a beam balance. Stories'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1976. 127 pp.
  • Tume laas ('The gloomy jungle'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1978. 212 pp.
  • Compromise. Sentimentaalse mehe mälestusi ('The Compromise. Memories of a Sentimental Man'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1982. 176 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Karl Muru: Poeetide pere kasvab, in: Looming 12/1960, pp. 1910-1912.
  • Mati Unt : Mis te minu minuga teete ?, in: Looming 7/1982, pp. 996–998.
  • Lehte Tavel: Tõemeelne peatükk metsaküla ajaloost, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/1979, pp. 46–48.
  • August Eelmäe: Egotisti portree, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 11/1982, pp. 604–606.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Karl Muru: Poeetide pere kasvab in: Looming 12/1960, S. 1911th
  3. ↑ Lehte Tavel: Tõemeelnepeatükk metsaküla ajaloost, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/1979, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Lehtmets, Tõnis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Rakvere