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Kalju Lepik

Died in 1999

Kalju Lepik was born on 7 October 1920 in Koeru, in Järvamaa, the son of an office clerk. After the commercial schools of Tartu, he studied Nordic history and archaeology at the University of Tartu, was conscripted into the German army in 1943, lived for a time among the forest brothers on Hiiumaa and reached Sweden in 1944. In Stockholm, he founded in 1946 the exile publishing house Eesti Raamat, directed the Baltic Archives from 1966 to 1985 and from 1982 chaired the Union of Estonian Writers Abroad. Having returned to his country for the first time in the spring of 1990, he died on 30 May 1999.

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