Valev Uibopuu

Valev Uibopuu (born October 19, 1913 in Vana-Antsla , Livonia  , † March 18, 1997 in Lund , Sweden ) was an Estonian journalist , scholar and writer . He is one of the most famous writers in exile in Estonia.

Life

Uibopuu was born on October 19, 1913 in Vana-Antsla, in the Estonian district of Võru , the son of a forest clerk and grew up with his parents and a brother and a sister.

His childhood, which he spent mainly in Iigaste and Haabsaare , was marked by numerous moves. A decisive experience was the arrest and execution of his father by the Red Army in 1919. His mother's stories about him would later prove to be one of the formative influences on the author's work. Uibopuu studied at the primary schools in Tartu , Karaski and Linnamäe and at the secondary primary school in Kanepi . Following this, he attended the High School of Otepää .

In the years before going into exile, Uibopuu worked as a journalist in Valga and Tallinn for the magazines Perekonnaleht and Eesti sõna , among others , and at this time began to write his own literary works. When the Red Army invaded Estonia in 1943, Uibopuu fled to Finland , where he initially worked for various libraries. From Finland he fled to Sweden after the expansion of the Soviet sphere of influence . There he continued his journalistic activities for the magazine Välis-Eesti and later worked cooperatively for the publishing house Eesti kirjanike . At the Estonian School in Stockholm put Uibopuu 1953, the High School from.

In 1954 Uibopuu returned to Finland and matriculated at the University of Helsinki . However, after studying theoretical philosophy and psychology , he returned to Sweden. The University of Lund awarded him the title Magister Artium in 1958 . In his dissertation , published in 1970, Uibopuu dealt with that of Finno-Ugric linguistics under the title Similar Comparative Constructions in Finnish and Estonian . Until his retirement in 1980 he worked as a lecturer at Lund University .

Uibopuu died on March 18, 1997 at the age of 83 in Lund. His body was transferred to Estonia and buried in the Lüllemäe cemetery.

Works

Uibopuu began his literary work in the 1930s while working as a journalist in Valga. The works he wrote in exile were rarely written in Finnish . Only the novel Keegi ei kuule meid ( Nobody listens to us ) from 1948 is available in German translation .

Selection of works:

• Väravate all , 1936 ( Under the Gates )
• Hõbedane õng , 1940 ( The Silver Blossom )
• Viljatu puu , 1940 ( The Barren Tree ) - collection of short stories
• Metsamajake , 1941 ( The Forest House )
• Häkkilinnut , 1945 in Finnish ( birds in a cage ) - collection of novels
• Võõras kodu , 1945 ( foreign home ) - novel
• Linnud puuris , 1946
• Keegi ei kuule meid , 1948 ( Nobody hears us ) - novel
• Kahju läinud aegadest , 1949 ( It's a shame about times past ) - collection of short stories
• Neli tuld , 1951 ( Four Fires ) - novel
• Igavene küla , 1954 ( The Eternal Village ) - collection of short stories
• Janu , 1957 ( thirst ) - novel
• Maskuse muutumised , 1961 - ( Markus' Changes )
• Mosaic: novelle ja laaste , 1962
• Similar comparative constructions in Finnish and Estonian , 1970 (dissertation)
• Lademed , 1970 ( deposits )
• Tosseli serenaad: jutustusi, novelle ja dialooge , 1982
• Ingenstans att ta vägen , 1983
• Meie ja meie hõimud , 1984 ( We us our tribes In: Lagman, Herbert (1988): Finnougrierna och deras språk. Student literature.)
• Ajovoolu võrendikest , 1987
• Kaks inimelu ajapöördeis ( Two lives in transition )
  • 1. Book: Mina ja Tema , 1990 ( Me and her )
  • 2. Book: Ainult juhus , 1991 ( only by chance )
• Muutunud maailm , 1997 ( The changed world )

Awards

• 1985 Dr. Arthur Puksov Foundation (Canada)
• 1993/1994 Prize from the Institute for Immigration

Memberships

• Swedish PEN club
• Finn-Ugric Society
• Finnish Literary Society
• Institute for Immigration

literature

Henno Jänes: History of Estonian Literature. Stockholm 1965.

Web links

• About Valev Uibopuu ( December 25, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive )
• Portrait of Valev Uibopuus on the side of the Võru Central Library (in Estonian)
• The Valgamaalane newspaper on Valev Uibopuu (in Estonian)
• Oskar Kruus: Memories of Writers (in Estonian)