Heino Kiik

Heino Kiik was born in 1927 near Väike-Maarja into a peasant family, graduated as a horticulturist from the Räpina school in 1947, then as an agronomist from the agricultural academy in 1956. He was an agronomist, gardener and journalist until 1963, then lived by his pen, and took the advanced courses of the Gorky Institute in Moscow. He married a ballerina, kept diaries that he published himself, and in 1988 founded the first private publishing house in the Soviet Union, then a second after falling out with the first. He left some thirty books and died in 2013.

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• NovelTondiöömajaHeino Kiik · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature