Viljo Anslan

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Viljo Anslan (born April 6, 1937 in Tallinn ; † October 28, 2017 there ) was an Estonian seaman and writer.

Life

Anslan went to school in Tallinn until 1954 and completed a radio operator training with the Air Force of the Soviet Army in Odessa . From 1954 he went to sea, later he trained as a boatman and worked in this position in the Estonian fishing industry until 1986. After an intermezzo as a vocational school teacher in Tallinn, he went to sea again in the early 1990s and then devoted himself primarily to writing.

Anslan had been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1995 .

plant

Anslan's travel reports, which he later expanded into short stories and novels, have appeared in magazines since the early 1960s. From them he put together his debut in 1970, which he followed up with numerous novels. At first they almost exclusively describe seafaring and the life of seafarers and in their factual depictions of everyday life as a sailor create "a lost world", just as the worlds of " Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad " were. Some of his books, which occasionally also deal with marine- related crime, have been brought into the naturalism of Ernst Peterson-Särgava , Jaan Oks or August Jakobson .

bibliography

  • Lugusid meremehe märkmikust ('Stories from a seaman's notebook'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1970. 76 pp.
  • Conterbant ('contraband'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1990. 157 pp.
  • Triibulised kotkad ('Striped Eagle'). Haapsalu: sn 1993, 173 pp.
  • Aususe võlu ('Magic of Honesty'). Tallinn: Ühiselu 1993. 399 pp.
  • Siniste põldude orjad ('slave of the blue fields'). Tallinn: sn 1995. 252 pp.
  • Meri ja kallas ('sea and shore'). Tallinn: sn 1996. 479 pp.
  • Auk raudses eesriides ('The Hole in the Iron Curtain'). Paide: Valmar 1996. 286 pp.
  • Aastase reisi jälgedes ('On the trail of a year-long journey'). Tallinn: Ingri 1997. 288 pp.
  • Aadlimäng ehk Pootsman Evert Vene laevaga Euroopas ('Das Adelsspiel or Boatswain Evert with a Russian ship in Europe'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2006. 339 pp.
  • Salaküti õpilane ('The Poacher's Disciple'). Tallinn: sn 2007. 405 pp.
  • Raadiosignaal 0001. Reamees Kandimaa mina-ambitsioonid seestpoolt ja kõrvaltvaates (documentaal 1954–1960) ('Radio signal 0001. The ambitions of private Kandimaa viewed from inside and outside. Documentation'). Tallinn: sn 2008. 172 pp.
  • Kolmekesi piiririigist ('Three people from the border region'). Tallinn: sn 2008. 510 pp.
  • Atlandi võlg ('The fault of the Atlantic'). Tallinn: sn 2009. 252 pp.
  • Noos ('prey'). Kõmmaste (Harjumaa): sn 2010. 311 p.
  • Liigsete Meka ('Mecca of the superfluous'). Tallinn: sn 2011. 207 pp.

Literature on the author

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 37.
  2. ↑ Viljo Anslan 6.IV 1937 - 28.X 2017, in: Looming 11/2017, p. 1695.
  3. ↑ Oskar Kruus: Varimajanduse pilti romaanis in: Looming 8/1994. P. 1142.
personal data
SURNAME Anslan, Viljo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian sailor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2017
Place of death Tallinn