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EpicKalevipoegFriedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald · 1861An epic in twenty cantos composed in the nineteenth century from legends and folk songs, in the time of the national awakening.Literature
PoetryEmajõe ÖöbikLydia Koidula · 1867not translated into EnglishA collection published without the author's name in Tartu, in the time of the national awakening, in which original poems at last outweigh adaptations from German.Literature
PoetryVana kannelJakob Hurt · 1875not translated into EnglishWhat two Estonian parishes used to sing, published with the variants collected.Literature
NarrativeThe AvengerTasujaEduard Bornhöhe · 1880The uprising of 1343 against the lords who had come from Germany and Denmark, told as an adventure in which a free peasant goes over to his own people.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeVariJuhan Liiv · 1894not translated into EnglishA peat-bog village where the parish lodges its paupers, and a gifted child who will never have the means to learn.Literature
NovelKülmale maaleEduard Vilde · 1896not translated into EnglishA young peasant driven to theft by hunger, in a countryside where the law does not look on everyone with the same eyes.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeÜhe härja eluluguErnst Peterson-Särgava · 1899not translated into EnglishA draught animal followed from its birth to its old age, in a countryside where the man who drives it is driven in the same way.Literature
PoetryFire of LifeElu tuliGustav Suits · 1905Verses from the year of the uprising, in which the ardour for living and the ardour for fighting are one and the same.Literature
TheatreThe WerewolfLibahuntAugust Kitzberg · 1911A child taken in on a farm where no one has forgotten who her mother was, in the days of serfdom.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelFelix OrmussonFriedebert Tuglas · 1915not translated into EnglishA summer in the country, a journal kept day after day, and a man who prefers to watch himself feel rather than act.Literature
PoetrySonetidMarie Under · 1917not translated into EnglishSonnets from 1917 in which a woman's voice speaks of desire without a veil, to the enthusiasm of young readers and the irritation of others.Literature
PoetryAmoresHenrik Visnapuu · 1917not translated into EnglishPoems published in the year a group of young people decided to shock, and which speak of desire without detour.Literature
NarrativeMaanainePeet Vallak · 1921not translated into EnglishA peasant woman, a country merchant and a new pen that must be tried out.Literature
PoetryOde to the MoonKuuKristjan Jaak Peterson · 1922An ode in which a language that does not yet have a literature asks aloud whether it can lay claim to eternity.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryGeomeetriline inimeneJohannes Vares-Barbarus · 1924not translated into EnglishPoems from 1924 that make man a geometric figure, in the age of machines and the great city.Literature
TaleVõrumaa jutudJuhan Jaik · 1924not translated into EnglishTales of devils, river creatures and peasants of south-eastern Estonia, between dread and mischief.Literature
NovelTruth and JusticeTõde ja õigusAnton Hansen Tammsaare · 1926Five volumes and half a century of Estonia, from a marsh farm to the town and the revolution.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaTallinn MarketTallinna turgKonstantin Märska · 1926A Tallinn market filmed as a field of optical experiments, in 1926.Cinema
CinemaNoored kotkadTheodor Luts · 1927Three volunteers of 1918, filmed less than ten years after the war.Cinema
NovelToomas NipernaadiAugust Gailit · 1928A summer of wandering, a story invented in every village and a promise made to every woman.Literature
CinemaKutsu-Juku seiklusiVoldemar Päts · 1931A cartoon dog who rides a pig and goes down to hell, in four minutes saved out of six.Cinema
NovelAt the Umera RiverÜmera jõelMait Metsanurk · 1934A canton in the south, its shaky old order, and the first war against those who come up from the south with the cross.Literature
NovelVehklemõisa aednikPedro Krusten · 1936not translated into EnglishA manor gardener loyal to his masters, and sons who no longer are, on the eve of the Great War.Literature
NovelNimed marmortahvlilAlbert Kivikas · 1936not translated into EnglishSchoolboys in Tartu in the winter of 1918, ordered to choose a side before they are grown men.Literature
NovelTuli ja raudKarl Ristikivi · 1938not translated into EnglishA farm boy who comes to the town for a while, and spends his whole life there as a worker.Literature
NovelSoolased tuuledEvald Mänd · 1944not translated into EnglishSeafarers from Hiiumaa, and a family that hands down its farm and its boats.Literature
PoetryThe End of the Anchor Chain is the Beginning of a SongAnkruketi lõpp on laulu algusIlmar Laaban · 1946Poems of the Swedish exile, in which images break free of all logic.Literature
PoetryNägu koduaknasKalju Lepik · 1946not translated into EnglishFirst poems of the Swedish exile, turned towards the childhood home and the lost country.Literature
PoetryPoeem StalinileJuhan Smuul · 1949not translated into EnglishA long poem in praise of the Soviet leader, written in 1949 by an islander of twenty-seven.Literature
NovelTuuline randAadu Hint · 1951not translated into EnglishA coastal village on Saaremaa before 1905, and a family whose two brothers take opposite paths.Literature
CinemaValgus KoordisGerbert Rappaport · 1951A postwar village being pushed into the kolkhoz, filmed by the authorities who are pushing it.Cinema
NovelGraves Without CrossesRistideta hauadArved Viirlaid · 1952Resistance fighters sheltering in the Estonian forests, in the autumn of the second Soviet occupation.Literature
NovelJanuValev Uibopuu · 1957not translated into EnglishA teenage girl immobilised by illness, and a year lived with senses sharpened to the extreme.Literature
Short storiesAruanneIlmar Jaks · 1958not translated into EnglishStories of Estonian soldiers on the Finnish front, and others on the human condition.Literature
NovelKrutsifiksKarl Rumor · 1960not translated into EnglishA religious revolt in the Brazilian sertão at the turn of the twentieth century, observed as a contagion of fanaticism.Literature
NovelEmajõgiBernard Kangro · 1961not translated into EnglishStudents in Tartu, in the late thirties, faced with two deaths they do not understand.Literature
NovelPeetri kiriku kelladIvar Grünthal · 1962not translated into EnglishA novel in verse about a youth in Tartu before the war, written in exile.Literature
NovelHüvasti, kollane kassMati Unt · 1963not translated into EnglishA schoolboy from Tartu at odds with his aunt and with himself, in the early sixties.Literature
NovelMonumentEnn Vetemaa · 1965not translated into EnglishA social climber who tells for himself how he removes a more gifted rival, on the site of an official monument.Literature
PoetryTolmust ja värvidestJaan Kaplinski · 1967not translated into EnglishThe second book of a young poet from Tartu, in which nature erases the boundaries of the self.Literature
Short storiesEight Japanese LadiesKaheksa jaapanlannatArvo Valton · 1968Grotesque short stories in which bureaucracy and progress turn absurd.Literature
TheatreCinderellagameTuhkatriinumängPaul-Eerik Rummo · 1969A sequel to the tale, in which the Prince doubts that he married the right Cinderella.Literature
NovelTondiöömajaHeino Kiik · 1970not translated into EnglishA collective farm of the early Soviet years, seen by an agronomist who laughs at it.Literature
CinemaSpringKevadeArvo Kruusement · 1970A country school of long ago, its pranks and its first, silent love.Cinema
CinemaThe Last RelicViimne reliikviaGrigori Kromanov · 1970A relic worth its weight in gold, a free man, a girl promised to another, and songs of freedom.Cinema
NovelTants aurukatla ümberMats Traat · 1971not translated into EnglishHalf a century of the country seen from a farmyard, one autumn day at a time.Literature
CinemaAsk the Dead About the Price of DeathSurma hinda küsi surnuteltKaljo Kiisk · 1977A condemned revolutionary, offered his life in exchange for a recantation, in the Estonia of 1925.Cinema
NovelThe Czar's MadmanKeisri hullJaan Kross · 1978A Baltic nobleman facing absolute power, seen through the diary of his peasant brother-in-law.Literature
CinemaThe Master of KõrbojaKõrboja peremeesLeida Laius · 1979A farm girl back from the city, a neighbour out of prison, and a piece of land waiting for its master.Cinema
CinemaThe Ideal LandscapeIdeaalmaastikPeeter Simm · 1981A young activist sent to hurry along the sowing on a collective farm, in postwar Estonia.Cinema
Cinema31. osakonna hukkPeeter Urbla · 1981A bomb alert that leads a policeman to the heart of an all-powerful press group.Cinema
PoetryPunaste õhtute purpurHando Runnel · 1982not translated into EnglishSongs of the land and the country, in which readers in 1982 read between the lines.Literature
TheatrePilvede värvidJaan Kruusvall · 1983not translated into EnglishA country on the eve of exile, seen from a farm by the sea.Literature
PoetryKuldne Aphrodite ja teisi luuletusiAin Kaalep · 1986not translated into EnglishLong poems between Antiquity and the Orient, by a learned poet from Tartu.Literature
PoetryThe Baltic ElegiesIvar Ivask · 1987Poems on the fate of the Baltic countries, written in English by an Estonian poet in exile.Literature
NovelThe Beauty of HistoryAjaloo iluViivi Luik · 1991A young woman and a sculptor in Riga, during the summer of the invasion of Czechoslovakia.Literature
PoetryPäikesepillajaArtur Alliksaar · 1997not translated into EnglishThe poems of an author kept silent, collected thirty years after his death.Literature
PoetryAlateadvus on alatasa purjusAndres Ehin · 2000not translated into EnglishForty years of poems by an Estonian surrealist, gathered in a single volume.Literature