Author · Estonia
Juhan Liiv
Died in 1913
Juhan Liiv was born on 30 April 1864 at Riidma, near Alatskivi, on the shore of Lake Peipus, the son of a peasant on the estate. After the village school of Naelavere, the parish school of Kodavere and a few months at the Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu, he lived by journalism in Viljandi and Tartu. In 1893 a mental illness took hold of him and never left him: he burned part of his manuscripts, was treated at the nervous clinic in Tartu and believed himself king of Poland. At the beginning of 1913, thrown from the Valga train into a marsh, he caught the pneumonia from which he died on 1 December.
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- NarrativeVariJuhan Liiv · 1894not translated into EnglishLiterature