Juhan Jaik

Juhan Jaik was born on 13 January 1899 in Sänna, in the parish of Rõuge, in Võrumaa, the son of a manor labourer. At sixteen, for belonging to a secret society of schoolboys who dreamed of driving out the Russians and the Germans, he was exiled to the Volga by the tsarist authorities; imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in 1918, he took part in the War of Independence. A journalist in Tallinn, then adviser to the Ministry of Education from 1936 to 1940, he fled to Austria in 1944 and reached Sweden in 1945 via France. He died on 10 December 1948 in the hospital of Katrineholm.

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• TaleVõrumaa jutudJuhan Jaik · 1924not translated into EnglishLiterature