Marie Under

Marie Under was born in Tallinn on 27 March 1883, the daughter of schoolteachers from Hiiumaa. A pupil at a German girls' school, she wrote at first in German, until the painter Ants Laikmaa persuaded her to switch to Estonian. A central figure of the Siuru group, then of Tarapita, she published thirteen collections and translated Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Pasternak, Goethe and Ibsen. Nominated sixteen times for the Nobel Prize, she fled to Sweden in September 1944, worked as an archivist at the Drottningholm theatre museum and died in Stockholm on 25 September 1980, aged ninety-seven.

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• PoetrySonetidMarie Under · 1917not translated into EnglishLiterature