Jaan Kaplinski

Jaan Kaplinski was born in Tartu on 22 January 1941, to an Estonian mother and a Polish father who taught his language at the university, arrested that same year and dead in a Soviet camp. From 1958 to 1964 he studied French philology and structural linguistics, was a researcher at the university, then at the Tallinn botanical garden. In 1980 he wrote the first version of the letter of the forty, sat in parliament from 1992 to 1995, translated from Chinese, Swedish, English and French, also wrote in Russian and English, and died in Tartu on 8 August 2021.

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• PoetryTolmust ja värvidestJaan Kaplinski · 1967not translated into EnglishLiterature