Peet Vallak

Peeter Pedajas, who signed as Peet Vallak, was born on 23 June 1893 at the Männiku farm, in the parish of Saarde, in Pärnumaa, the son of a peasant. He studied drawing in Pärnu, in Tartu and in Saint Petersburg, gave the press prose pieces and caricatures from his school years, and fought in the War of Independence. The draughtsman's eye stayed with him: his writing goes to the detail and observes its characters from the outside. Married to the translator Marie Vasar, he was dramaturge of the Vanemuine from 1938 to 1940. A serious illness took part of his memory from him in the early fifties; he died in Tartu on 17 March 1959.

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• NarrativeMaanainePeet Vallak · 1921not translated into EnglishLiterature