Jüri Talvet

Jüri Talvet (born December 17, 1945, Pärnu) is an Estonian poet and academic.

Talvet is the author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded the Estonian Annual Prize of Literature (1986), the Juhan Liiv Prize of Poetry (1997) and the Ivar Ivask Memorial Prize for poetry and essay (2002).

He is the Chair of Comparative Literature of Tartu University and since 1994 he chairs the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature. He is the editor of Interlitteraria, the annual international journal of comparative literature published by Tartu University Press.

Career

Jüri Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from Tartu University in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.

He has since 1974 taught Western literary history at Tartu University. In 1992/1993 he founded Spanish Studies. Since 1992 he has worked as full time Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature.

Works

Poetry

*"Äratused" ("Awakenings", Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1981)
*"Ambur ja karje" ("The Archer and the Cry", Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1986)
*"Hinge kulg ja kliima üllatused" ("The Soul’s Progress and Surprises of Climate", Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1990)
*"Eesti eleegia ja teisi luuletusi" ("Estonian Elegy and Other Poems", Tallinn, Kupar, 1997)
*"Kas sul viinamarju ka on?" ("Do You Have Also Grapes?", Tartu, Ilmamaa, 2001)
*"Unest, lumest" ("From Dreams, from Snow", Tartu, Ilmamaa, 2005)
*"Elegía estonia y otros poemas" (a selection in Spanish, translated by author and Albert Lázaro Tinaut, Valencia, Palmart Capitelum, 2002)

Prose

*"Teekond Hispaaniasse" ("A Journey to Spain", Tallinn, Loomingu Raamatukogu, 1985)
*"Hispaaniast Ameerikasse" ("From Spain to America", Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1992)
*"Hispaania vaim" ("The Spanish Spirit", Tartu, Ilmamaa, 1995)
*"Ameerika märkmed ehk Kaemusi Eestist" ("American Notes or Contemplations of Estonia", Tartu, Ilmamaa, 2000)
*"Sümbiootiline kultuur" ("Symbiotic Culture", Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2005)
*"Tõrjumatu äär" ("The Irrefutable Border", Tartu, Ilmamaa, 2005)
*"A Call for Cultural Symbiosis" (essay, translated by H. L. Hix, Toronto, Guernica, 2005)

Translations

*"Kadunud aja meri", Gabriel García Márquez (Tallinn, Loomingu Raamatukogu, 1980)
*"Tormese Lazarillo elukäik", (Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1983)
*"Valik luulet", Francisco de Quevedo (Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1987)
*"Käsioraakel ja arukuse kunst", Baltasar Gracián (Tallinn, Eesti Raamat, 1993)
*"Elu on unenägu", Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Tallinn, Kunst, 1999)
*"Suur maailmateater", Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2006)
*"Sevilla pilkaja ja kivist külaline", Tirso de Molina (Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2006)
*"On the Way Home: An Anthology of Contemporary Estonian Poetry", translated with H. L. Hix (New Delhi, Sarup & Sons, 2006)
*"Kindel kui linnulend", H. L. Hix (Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2007)

Edited Books

*"Meel paremat ei kannata / The Mind Would Bear No Better", Juhan Liiv, translated with H. L. Hix (Tartu, Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2007)
*"Tuulehoog lõi vetesse", Juhan Liiv (Tallinn, Tänapäev, 2007)

External links

*http://www.einst.ee/literary/spring97/04talvet.htm An interview with J. Talvet, by H. L. Hix, Estonian Literary Magazine, Spring 1997

*http://www.fenkefeng.org/jt.html Fenke Feng Cultural Group

*http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3245793/Juri-Talvet-Kas-sul-viinamarju.html Excerpt from a review by Janika Kronberg in World Literature Today, April-June 2003