Valev Uibopuu

Valev Uibopuu was born on 19 October 1913 in the parish of Karula, in Võrumaa. A pupil at the Otepää secondary school, he was a journalist in Tallinn, reached Finland in 1943 and Sweden in 1944, where he worked in the exile press. He then resumed his studies, in Stockholm and then at the University of Lund, and in 1970 defended a thesis in Finno-Ugric linguistics. From 1954 to 1970 he headed the Estonian writers' cooperative, taught at Lund and directed the Finno-Ugric institute there from 1971 to 1980. He died in Lund on 18 March 1997 and was buried in Karula.

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• NovelJanuValev Uibopuu · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature