Voldemar Õun

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Voldemar Õun (pseudonym Mardikas , born December 26, 1892 July / January 7,  1893 greg. In Tallinn , † January 4, 1986 in Gothenburg ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

Õun went to school in Tallinn and then started a civil servant career. Before the First World War he was a secretary at the Friedensgericht; in 1915 he was mobilized into the tsarist army . In Petrograd, however, he fell ill with tuberculosis , from which he only recovered in the 1920s. He then continued his studies and graduated from the law faculty of the University of Tartu in 1937 . At the same time he was court secretary in Tallinn and Haapsalu ; after graduating, he became secretary to Anton Palvadre , Estonian Chancellor of Justice . At the end of the German occupation of Estonia in World War II , he left the country and came to Sweden , where he was employed in industry.

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Voldemar Õun made his debut in the course of the Loodus publishing house's novel competitions and was immediately successful. His first two novels, which were awarded prizes, provided realistic insights from the Tallinn civil servants' milieu in the 1930s. One critic drew the comparison to Mait Metsanurk , who wrote about the pastor class what Õun wrote about the jurists. In exile, Õun wrote the two-part novel The New Gospel (1953), which deals with the forcible imposition of a new system in the course of the Sovietization of Estonia in 1940/1941.

Awards

  • 1938 Third prize in the Loodus publishing house's novel competition.
  • 1939 First prize in the Loodus publishing house's novel competition.

bibliography

  • (under the pseudonym Mardikas ) Tint ('ink'). Tartu, Tallinn: Loodus 1938. 340 pp.
  • (under the pseudonym Mardikas ) Konarlik tee ('The bumpy way'). Tartu, Tallinn: Loodus 1939. 373 pp.
  • Viis paari susse. Üks Nõukogude lugu ('Five pairs of slippers. A Soviet story'). Lund: EKK 1952. 287 pp.
  • Uus evangeelium I + II ('The New Gospel I + II'). Lund: EKK 1953. 334 + 310 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Harald Paukson: Mardikas: Konarlik tee, in: Looming 9/1939, pp. 1005-1006.
  • Oskar Urgart: Mardikas: Konarlik tee, in: Eesti Kirjandus 12/1939, pp. 556–557.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 690.
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanduse ajalugu. II köide. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1966, pp. 310-311.
  3. ↑ Harald Paukson: Mardikas: Konarlik tee, in: Looming 9/1939, p. 1005.
  4. ↑ Eesti kirjandus paguluses. XX sajandil. Toimetanud Piret Kruuspere. [Tallinn:] Eesti TA Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus 2008, p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Õun, Voldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mardikas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1986
Place of death Gothenburg