Viivi Luik

Viivi Luik was born on 6 November 1946 in the village of Tänassilma, in Viljandimaa, to an electrician father and a mother who worked on the kolkhoz. She published her first poem at sixteen in the Viljandi newspaper, attended secondary school by correspondence in Tallinn from 1962 to 1967 while working as a librarian and archivist, and has lived by her pen since 1967. Married in 1974 to the writer and diplomat Jaak Jõerüüt, she lived in Helsinki, Rome and New York, and was honoured in 2019 for her work as a whole.

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• NovelThe Beauty of HistoryAjaloo iluViivi Luik · 1991Literature