Author · Estonia
Ain Kaalep
Died in 2020
Ain Kaalep was born in Tartu on 4 June 1926, the son of a forester who left the country in 1944. He went to Finland in 1943, served in the army there and returned in August 1944 to fight for his country. Arrested in 1945 and held for more than a year without trial, then expelled from the university in 1949 as a cosmopolitan, he worked in a waste-paper collection centre, obtained a degree in Finno-Ugric languages by correspondence in 1956 and settled in Elva. A prolific translator, he edited the journal Akadeemia from 1989 to 2001 and died in Tartu on 9 June 2020.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryKuldne Aphrodite ja teisi luuletusiAin Kaalep · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature