Mait Metsanurk

Eduard Hubel, who signed Mait Metsanurk after the name of his village, was born on 19 November 1879 at the Saare farm, in Metsanuka, near Tartu, the last of eight children of a peasant family. After leaving the school of Orge and the district school of Tartu, he was a clerk and a schoolteacher, then a journalist in Tallinn from 1906. He chaired the writers' union on several occasions. Having remained in the country under the Soviet occupation, he had to rework his books, was expelled from the union in 1950 and worked as a night watchman. He died in Tallinn on 21 August 1957.

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• NovelAt the Umera RiverÜmera jõelMait Metsanurk · 1934Literature