Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Kaplinski, Jaan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852248890 ISBN 13 : 9781852248895

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation are published across the Baltic region.

This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems drawn from all four of his previous UK collections: The Same Sea in Us All, The Wandering Border, Through the Forest and Evening Brings Everything Back.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jaan Kaplinski (1941-2021) was one of Estonia's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was born in Tartu shortly after the Soviet annexation of Estonia. His mother was Estonian, and his Polish Jewish father, Jerzy Kaplinski, a professor of philology at Tartu University, died from starvation in a Soviet labour camp when Jaan was still a child. Jaan Kaplinski studied Romance Language and Linguistics at Tartu University and worked as a researcher in linguistics, as a sociologist, ecologist and translator. He lectured on the History of Western Civilisation at Tartu University and was a student of Mahayana Buddhism and philosophies of the Far East. He wrote and published several books of poetry and essays in Estonian, Finnish and English, starting to write also in Russian in recent years. His first original collection of poems written in Russian, “Белые бабочки ночи” (White Butterflies of Night), was published in 2014, receiving a “Russian Award” in Moscow celebrating the best works written in Russian by foreign authors. His work has been translated many languages, including English, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Icelandic, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Hebrew, Bulgarian and Czech.

After publishing English translations of three collections with Harvill in Britain, one of these from Breitenbush and one from Copper Canyon in the US, Kaplinski published Evening Brings Everything Back with Bloodaxe Books in 2004, a book combining work from three earlier titles published in Estonia, Evening Brings Everything Back (1984), Ice and Heather (1989) and Summers and Springs (1995). His semi-autobiographical, mystical novel, The Same River, translated by Susan Wilson, was published by Peter Owen in 2009. His other English translators and co-translators have included Hildi Hawkins, Sam Hamill, Fiona Sampson and Riina Tamm.

His Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems drawn from all four of his previous UK collections: The Same Sea in Us All (1985/1990), The Wandering Border (1987/1992), Through the Forest (1991/1996) and Evening Brings Everything Back (2004).

He was awarded the European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) in 2016, and in the same year was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He translated literature from French, English, Spanish, Chinese (including the Tao Te Ching) and Swedish (a book of poems by Tomas Tranströmer), and travelled widely. Awarded many prizes and honours, he was a member of several learned societies including the Universal Academy of Cultures. Jaan Kaplinski was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament (Riigikogu) in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation are published across the Baltic region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852248890
• ISBN 13: 9781852248895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible