Bernard Kangro

Bernard Kangro was born on 18 September 1910 in the village of Oe, into a peasant family of Võrumaa, and studied literature at the University of Tartu, where in 1938 he defended a dissertation on the history of the Estonian sonnet. He gave his name to the group of poets of his generation, taught at the university, was a dramaturge at the Vanemuine theatre, and in 1944 fled through Finland to Sweden. Settled in Lund in 1950, he founded there the journal Tulimuld and a publishing house of the exile, which he directed until their end, published seventeen collections of poems and seventeen novels, and died in Lund on 25 March 1994.

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• NovelEmajõgiBernard Kangro · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature