Author · Estonia
Albert Kivikas
Died in 1978
Albert Kivikas was born on 18 January 1898 in the village of Suure-Jaani, in Viljandimaa, son of a weaver, and spent his childhood at the Olustvere estate. Admitted in 1916 to the commercial secondary school in Tartu, which gave him a deferment from conscription, he volunteered for the War of Independence, then studied at the University of Tartu and in 1922 and 1923 edited cultural journals in Berlin. A journalist and playwright, he chaired the writers' union from 1941 to 1944, crossed to Finland in the spring of 1944, then to Sweden in the autumn, and died in Lund on 19 May 1978.
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- NovelNimed marmortahvlilAlbert Kivikas · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature