Heiti Talvik

Heiti Talvik ( born November 9, 1904 in Tartu, † July 18, 1947 in the Tyumen Oblast, Soviet Union, uncertain) was an Estonian poet.

Life and literary career

Heiti Talvik was born into a scholarly Tartu doctor's family, his mother was a pianist. In 1923 he left school unexpectedly and initially sought work in oil shale mining of Kohtla -Järve. At the same time he wrote his own poems, which he submitted at the cultural magazine Looming and its editor in chief peace Tuglas always.

In 1926 he took on the night school from Parnu to his high school and studied from 1926 to 1934 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Tartu.

Since 1928 Talvik devoted more and more of the lyrics. From 1934, with the publication of the collection of poems Palavik (fever), he became one of the most well-known Estonian poet and member of the literary group Arbujad ( shamans ). The circle also belonged to the poet Betti Alver, the 1937 Talvik married. The group felt a deep spiritual experience of man as independent beings committed.

After the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union Heiti Talvik was abducted in May 1945 to Siberia. Then the traces are lost. He died probably in July 1947 from the consequences of deportation. His grave is unknown.

Poetry collections

• " Palavik " (1934 )
• " Kohtupäev " (1937 )