Mats Traat

Mats Traat ( born November 23, 1936 in Palupera ) is an Estonian writer.

Life

Mats Traat graduated 1957, the College of Agriculture Engineering Technology ( Põllumajanduse Mehhaniseerimise Tehnikum ) in Vaeküla ( now the town Sõmeru ) from. He then worked in agriculture. From 1959 to 1964 he studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. From 1965 to 1968 Mats Traat was an editor at the state-owned Estonian film production Tallinnfilm. In 1969 he occupied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute courses in film directing and dramaturgy. Since 1970 he lives and works as a freelance writer in Tallinn.

Author

Mats Traat is one of the most prolific Estonian writers of the present. Even his first poems published in 1962, were a success. His work includes prose, poetry and a play. In addition, he has worked as a translator from Polish, Czech and Macedonian and writes film scripts with.

Mats Traat began his literary career with poems that deal with thoughts about the future and the position of the home. The focus is almost always the common man. Basic theme of his prose is the influence of rural Estonia on the historical development of the Estonian people. By using the South-Estonian Tartu dialect the rural milieu is portrayed more credible.

Works

Novels

  • " Tants aurukatla ümber " (1971)
  • " Maastik Õunapuu yes meierikorstnaga " (1973)
  • " Pommeri aed " (1973)
  • " Inger " (1975; German: Inger, or year on the island, 1976)
  • " Türgi oad " (1977)
  • " Puud olide, puud olide HellaD velled " (1979)
  • " Rippsild " (1980)
  • " Karukell, kurvameelsuse rohi " (1982)
  • " Üksi rändan " (1985)
  • " Minge ülés mägedele ( Volume I, 1987, Volume II, 1994)
  • " Hirm yes iha " (1993)

Poetry anthologies

  • " Kandilised Laulud " (1962)
  • " Kaalukoda " (1966)
  • " Valitud luuletused " (1979)
  • " Sügislootus " (1986)
  • " Ajalaulud " (1990)
  • " Vastuseta " (1991)
  • " Koidu Kate's " (1993)

Spectacle

  • " Päike näkku " (1981)

Collection of short stories

  • " Sarviku Armastus " (2007)

Awards

  • Mats Traat received three times the prestigious Friedebert - Tuglas Prize (1996, 2002, 2007 ) for his prose pieces.
  • Order of the White Star III. Class (2001)
  • Kultuurkapitali kirjanduspreemia (2010)
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