Author · Estonia
Friedebert Tuglas
Died in 1971
Friedebert Mihkelson, who took the name Tuglas, was born on 2 March 1886 in Ahja, south of Tartu, the son of a carpenter. A pupil at the Treffner gymnasium, he took part in the 1905 revolution, spent two months in Toompea prison and lived in exile from 1906 to 1917, in Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Paris. Back in his country, he co-founded the writers' union in 1922, which he chaired several times, and founded the review Looming in 1923. Expelled from the union in 1950 and reduced to silence, he was rehabilitated after 1955 and died in Tallinn on 15 April 1971.
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- NovelFelix OrmussonFriedebert Tuglas · 1915not translated into EnglishLiterature