Mats Traat

Mats Traat was born on 23 November 1936 at the Kuudse farm, in the village of Meema, in Palupera parish, in southern Estonia. He worked in the fields and at tractor stations, graduated in 1957 as a mechanical technician from the Vaeküla school, then in 1964 from the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. An editor at the Tallinnfilm studio from 1965 to 1968, he lived by his pen from 1970, published thirty-seven poetry collections, five of them in the Tartu dialect, wrote for more than forty years brief lives of villagers of an imaginary place, and died in 2022.

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• NovelTants aurukatla ümberMats Traat · 1971not translated into EnglishLiterature