Vallo Raun

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Vallo Raun (officially Valdo , born January 19, 1935 in Pärnu ) is an Estonian writer , radio play author and bibliophile .

Life

Raun graduated from high school in Tallinn in 1954 and then studied Estonian philology at the Tallinn University of Education . After graduating in 1959, he worked for several years in various newspaper editorial offices and from 1963 for the magazine Kultuur ja Elu . He was also an editor at Teater magazine between 1981 and 1989 . Muusika. Cinema .

Raun was a member of the CPSU from 1966 to 1989 . The Estonian writer and politician Mait Raun is his son, the Estonian writer and journalist Ott Raun is his brother. In Estonia he is best known as a bibliophile book collector who has a private library with over 6000 volumes, in which there are also unique items that are not in the major libraries in Estonia or are even missing from the national bibliography.

Literary work

Raun has published short stories and feature articles since 1959 and wrote ten radio plays for Estonian radio that were performed in the 1970s and 1980s but not printed. They received critical acclaim - one critic called Raun's stylistic freshness a “peculiar interweaving of lyric and grotesque” - and some even found their way abroad. One of his radio plays was broadcast in German by Irja Grönholm on WDR .

bibliography

  • Taave. Noorsoojutustus . ('Taave. A youth story'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1988. 108 pp.
  • Romantic trip to Dubrovnik. Radio play . Translated by Irja Grönholm. Date of broadcast June 30, 1991. WDR Cologne.

Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 455.
  2. ↑ Eerik Teder: Kiindumuseks raamat, in: Eesti Päevaleht January 19, 2000, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Einar Kraut: Raadiokirjandus - kirjandus ?, in: Kirjanduse Jaosmaa `78. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1980, p. 210.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Estonian literature in German translation. A reception story from the 19th to the 21st century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, p. 308.
personal data
SURNAME Raun, Vallo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raun, Valdo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and bibliophile
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu