Viivi Luik

Viivi Luik (2011).

Viivi Luik (born November 6, 1946 in the village of Tänassilma , Viiratsi municipality / Viljandi district ) is an Estonian writer and poet.

education

Viivi Luik was born into a rural family. She attended primary school in Tänassilma, middle school in Kalme ( Rõngu municipality ) and high school in Tallinn . From 1965 she worked as a librarian and archivist in Tallinn. She has lived there since 1967, interrupted by lengthy stays abroad (Finland, Germany, Latvia, Sweden) as a freelance writer.

Poetry

Viivi Luik had already published his first poems in 1962 . Her first book followed in 1965. By her 40th birthday, she had written around 400 poems. Her novels deal with the conditions and moods during the Soviet era. Since 1967 she has been working as a freelance writer, who took advantage of various grants, especially in the 1990s. Today Viivi Luik is one of the most important and internationally best known contemporary Estonian poets. Time and again, her work deals with social tensions and fragile interpersonal networks. The connection to rural Estonia is always present.

In 1988 she was awarded the Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize. In 1992 she received the Culture Prize of the Estonian State .

prose

In spring 1985, her debut novel Seitsmes rahukevad (German: The Seventh Peace Spring , 1991) appeared surprisingly for many , in which a childhood in Stalinism is described in haunting language. The novel has been translated into over ten languages ​​and made the author known outside of Estonia. Six years later, Viivi Luik published her second novel, Ajaloo ilu (German The Beauty of History , 1995). The novel deals with the year 1968 and the experiences of young Estonian intellectuals against the background of the hippie movement and the invasion of Prague by Soviet troops .

Awards

• 1976 Juhan Smuul Prize (poetry)
• 1977 Juhan Smuul Prize (children's literature)
• 1983 Juhan Smuul Prize (poetry)
• 1986 Juhan Smuul Prize (prose)
• 1986 Anton Hansen Tammsaare -Literature Prize of the Albu community
• 1986 Honored Writer of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1988 Juhan Liiv Prize
• 2000 Order of the White Star , III. class
• 2019 Estonian State Culture Prize for Lifetime Achievement
• 2020 Jaan Kross Prize

Works

10 volumes of poetry, 3 novels, also essays, radio plays and children's books.

• "Pilvede püha" (collection of poems, 1965)
• "Taevaste tuul" (collection of poems, 1966)
• "Hääl" (collection of poems, 1968)
• "Lauludemüüja" (collection of poems, 1968)
• "Ole kus sa oled" (collection of poems, 1971)
• "Pildi sisse minek" (collection of poems, 1973)
• "Leopold" (children's book, 1974)
• "Salamaja piir" (short story, 1974)
• "Vaatame mis Leopold veel räägib" (children's book, 1974)
• "Põliskevad" (collection of poems, 1975)
• "Leopold aitab linnameest" (children's book, 1976)
• "Luulet 1962–1974" (anthology, 1977)
• "Maapäälsed asjad" (collection of poems, 1978)
• "Tubased lapsed" (children's book, 1979)
• "Rängast rõõmust" (collection of poems, 1982)
• "Kõik lood Leopoldist" (children's book, 1984)
• "Seitsmes rahukevad" (novel, 1985)

German: "The Seventh Peace Spring" (1991)

• "Kolmed tähed" (children's book, 1987)
• "Ajaloo ilu" (novel, 1991)

German: "The Beauty of History" (1995)

• "Inimese kapike" (essays, 1998)
• "Maa taevas: luulet 1962-1990" (anthology, 1998)
• "Elujoon: valitud luuletused 1962–1997" (anthology, 2005)
• "Kõne koolimaja haual. Artiklid ja esseed 1998-2006" (Essays, 2006)
• "Varjuteater" (novel, 2010)

German: "Schattenspiel" (2018)

• [together with Hedi Rosma:] "Ma olen raamat" (essay, 2010)

German translations

• The seventh spring of peace . From the Estonian by Horst Bernhardt. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1991 [novel]
• The beauty of the story . From the Estonian by Horst Bernhardt. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1995 [novel]
• Shadow play . From the Estonian by Cornelius Hasselblatt . Göttingen: Wallstein 2018 [novel]
• Europe in transition Tutzing 1992
• The century is over , Tallinn 1993
• Poetry selection in: Akzente 1/1992 and in: estonia magazine for Estonian literature 2/1997, 2/1999, 3/2003; u. a.

Private life

Viivi Luik has been married to the writer and diplomat Jaak Jõerüüt (* 1947) since 1974 .

Literature on the author

• Viivi Luik. Kirjanduse nimestik. Koostanud H. Voogla. Autobiography: V. Luik. Tallinn: Eesti NSV Ministry of Culture. Eesti NSV Riiklik Laste- ja Noorsooraamatukogu 1977. 35 p.
• Sirje Kiin: Viivi Luik, in: Looming 10/1980, pp. 1437-1455.
• Five questions to Viivi Luik regarding the "Seventh Peace Spring", in: Estonia 3/1987, pp. 109–111.
• Maire Jaanus: Viivi Luik: War and peace; body and genotext in her novel Seitsmes rahukevad , in: Journal of Baltic Studies 3/1989, pp. 265–282.
• Irja Dittmann-Grönholm : Luik, Viivi, in: Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon. Edited by Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild. Stuttgart, Weimar 1998, pp. 320-321.
• Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: Multidimensional Time-Space in Margaret Atwood 's Cat's Eye and Viivi Luik's The Seventh Spring of Peace , in: interlitteraria 3/1998, pp. 248–266.
• Cornelius Hasselblatt : Viivi Luik, in: Critical lexicon for contemporary foreign language literature. 56. Subsequent delivery. Munich: edition text + kritik 2001. 14 + 5 pp.
• Cornelius Hasselblatt: Can history be beautiful? On the construction of the past in two novels by Viivi Luik, in: Nordost-Archiv. Journal of regional history. NF VIII (1999), pp. 419-433.
• Arne Merilai : Viivi Luik linnulennul, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 9/2006, pp. 689–713.
• Looming - olemise kehtestamine: Viivi Luik. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2007. 333 pp.
• Estonians in the Eternal City. A conversation with Viivi Luik and Jaak Jõerüüt , in: Estonia 1/2002, pp. 62–69.
• Arne Merilai: Longing for the bosom of the rowan-tree: Viivi Luik, in: Estonian Literary Magazine 24 (2007), pp. 4-11. [1]
• Arne Merilai: Of Hard Joy: Half a Century of Viivi Luik's Creations. Poetry, in: interlitteraria 18/1 (2013), pp. 211–225. [2]
• Arne Merilai: Of Hard Joy: Half a Century of Viivi Luik's Creations. Prose, in: interlitteraria 18/2 (2013), pp. 335-348. [3]
• Being one with the world, ie why leave home? An interview with Viivi Luik by Aija Sakova, in: ELM 47 (Autumn 2018), pp. 36–39. [4]
• 5 + 5. A conversation between writers Viivi Luik and Tõnu Õnnepalu , in: Estonian Literary Magazine 49 (Autumn 2019), pp. 6-14. [5]

supporting documents

1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Viivi Luik and the 'Seventh Peace Spring'. - Baltic Yearbook (1986), pp. 227–236
2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Can history be beautiful? On the construction of the past in two novels by Viivi Luik. - Northeast Archives. Journal of regional history. NF VIII (1999), pp. 419-433

Web links

• Literature by and about Viivi Luik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Viivi Luik website (Estonian and German)