Author · Estonia
Ilmar Laaban
Died in 2000
Ilmar Laaban was born in Tallinn on 11 December 1921. A pupil at the Tallinn Realschule, he also studied the piano, then composition with Heino Eller at the conservatoire, and Romance languages for a year in Tartu. In May 1943 he crossed to Sweden via Finland and studied Romance languages and philosophy at Stockholm University. An art and music critic and lecturer, he introduced modern French art on Swedish radio, composed thousands of palindromes in several languages and translated Estonian poetry into German and Swedish. He died in Stockholm on 29 November 2000.
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- PoetryThe End of the Anchor Chain is the Beginning of a SongAnkruketi lõpp on laulu algusIlmar Laaban · 1946Literature