Paul-Eerik Rummo

Paul-Eerik Rummo was born in Tallinn on 19 January 1942, the son of the poet Paul Rummo. He studied literature at the University of Tartu, from which he graduated in 1965, and then worked for the theatre. A poet from 1962, he also wrote plays and translated Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Finnish poets. A signatory in 1980 of the letter of the forty intellectuals against Russification, he was, after independence, Minister of Culture and Education from 1992 to 1994, then Minister of Population from 2003 to 2007. He is married to the actress and writer Viiu Härm.

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