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Aadu Hint

Died in 1989

Adolf Hint, who signed himself Aadu, was born on 10 January 1910 in Külasema, on the island of Muhu, and grew up on Saaremaa. After the school in Lümanda and the secondary school in Kuressaare, he taught on the islands. A deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the republic from 1940, he spent the war in the Soviet rear, then presided over the union of fishing cooperatives and lived by his pen in Tallinn from 1949. He was made People's Writer in 1965, married in turn the poets Debora Vaarandi and Minni Nurme, had eight children and died in Tallinn on 26 October 1989.

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