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Poets'
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Andres Ehin was born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1940. In 1964
he graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in
Finno-Ugric studies and taught for a year among the Selqups
in northwest Siberia. Between 1965 and 1974, he worked as
an editor and writer for several newspapers and journals in
Tallinn. In 1974 he moved to Rapla and devoted himself to
writing and translating full time. He currently lives in Rapla
with his wife and their three daughters, Piret, Kristiina
and Eliisa.
His first poetry collection, The Wolf’s Oak,
was published in 1968 and has been followed by six further
collections. He won the Estonian Culture Capital Foundation
Award for Consciousness is Snakeskin as the best
poetry collection of 1996. A collection of his poems, including
some haiku, has been published in the Cork 2005 Translations
Project: Moose Beetle Swallow (trs. Patrick Cotter).
Ehin has published numerous literary essays and translations,
as well as fiction and journalism.
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