Jaan Kross: Negotiating Nation
Jaan Kross: Negotiating Nation

Summary/Abstract: Jaan Kross — influential poet, prolific essayist, and accomplished translator — is known in world literature as Estonia’s grand old man of the historical novel. Born eighty years ago on February 19th in Tallinn, he studied law and international relations at the University of Tartu. In 1944 he was arrested by the occupying Germans and, two years after Estonia’s subsequent Soviet occupation, in 1946, deported into Russian labor camps. After his return to Tallinn, in 1954, Kross worked as a translator and writer. In the 50s and 60s he wrote poetry and published the collections Söerikastaja (1958), Kivist viiulid (1964), Lauljad laevavööridel (1966), and Vihm teeb toredaid asju (1969).

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