Karl Ristikivi

Karp, later Karl Ristikivi, was born on 16 October 1912 in the village of Uue-Varbla, in Läänemaa, the son of a farm maid whom his father never acknowledged. A pupil at the commercial school and the evening college in Tallinn, he won a children's book competition that allowed him to study geography at Tartu, graduating with distinction in 1941 or 1942. Employed in 1943 at Pskov in the service of the German police patrols, he fled at the end of the year to Finland, reached Sweden in 1944 and worked there as an insurance clerk. He never started a family and died in Stockholm on 19 July 1977.

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• NovelTuli ja raudKarl Ristikivi · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature