Author · Estonia
August Gailit
Died in 1960
August Gailit was born on 9 January 1891 at the Kuiksilla farm, on the Sangaste estate, the son of a master builder of Latvian or Livonian origin and of an Estonian mother from a Germanised family. He grew up on the Laatre estate, attended the Latvian school in Valga and then the district school in Tartu without finishing it, and lived by journalism in Riga, Tallinn and Tartu. A founding member of the Siuru group in 1917, he directed the Vanemuine theatre from 1932 to 1934, left for Sweden with his family in September 1944 and died near Örebro on 5 November 1960.
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- NovelToomas NipernaadiAugust Gailit · 1928Literature