Arvo Valton

Arvo Vallikivi, who signed Arvo Valton, was born in Märjamaa on 14 December 1935 and was deported with his family in 1949, at thirteen: he went to school in the Novosibirsk region, then in Magadan, and returned only in 1954. A mining engineer, he also followed the film institute by correspondence and worked at the Tallinnfilm studio, for which he wrote the screenplay of its most famous film. A signatory of the Letter of the Forty in 1980, a member of parliament from 1992 to 1995, a defender of the Finno-Ugric peoples, he died on 26 July 2024.

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• Short storiesEight Japanese LadiesKaheksa jaapanlannatArvo Valton · 1968Literature