Hando Runnel

Hando Runnel was born on 24 November 1938 at Liutsalu, in the parish of Võhmuta, in Järvamaa, the son of a peasant whose farm was collectivised and who died prematurely. From 1957 to 1962 he pursued agronomy studies by correspondence without completing them, worked on the collective farm of his district, then from 1966 to 1971 was on the editorial staff of the journal Looming. After independence, he sat in the Estonian Congress, chaired the board of the publisher Ilmamaa, directed there a series devoted to Estonian thought, and was elected in 2012 to the Academy of Sciences.

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• PoetryPunaste õhtute purpurHando Runnel · 1982not translated into EnglishLiterature