Estonian science fiction
Science fiction and fantasy in Estonia is largely a product of the current post-Soviet era. Although somewhat earlier authors, like Eiv Eloon and Tiit Tarlap, do exist.[1]
Eesti Ulmeühing is an organization for print science fiction in Estonia that awards annual Stalker prizes.[2] The awards are named after the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker that was largely shot in Estonia.
In film the works of Raul Tammet have been analyzed.[3]
In the 1980s notable were two novels by Eiv Eloon (real name Lea Soo; born 1945[4]): "Kaksikliik" ('Double Species'; 1981) and "Kaksikliik 2" ('Double Species 2'; 1988). These two novels were only works by Eloon.[5]
A selection of Estonian writers who have won multiple Stalkers
- Veiko Belials
- Lew R. Berg
- Meelis Friedenthal
- Indrek Hargla - Pen-name for Indrek Sootak, he also writes detective fiction that has been translated to English.[6]
- Leo Kunnas
- Tiit Tarlap
- Siim Veskimees
The novel The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk was awarded the Stalker award in 2008.[7]
References
- ^ Sulbi, Raul. "Estonian science-fiction". Estonian Literary Magazine.
- ^ "Estonian Science Fiction Association's page on Stalker awards". Retrieved 2019-10-02.
- ^ Näripea, Eva (2010). "Aliens and time travellers: Recycling national space in Estonian science-fiction cinema". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 1 (2): 167–182. doi:10.1386/seec.1.2.167_1. S2CID 194103402.
- ^ "Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK". www2.kirmus.ee. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Sulbi, Raul. "Estonian science-fiction". elm.einst.ee. Archived from the original on 2010-09-11.
- ^ "Peter Owen Publishers". Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
- ^ Stalker Award for Science Fiction 2008. Estonian Literature Centre.
Further reading
- Andrus Org. Eesti ulmekirjanduse žanrid ja nende poeetika. (The Genre System of Estonian Fantastic Fiction and its Poetics, PhD thesis). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017. (Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis 16.)
- Andrus Org. The Dimensions of the Contemporary Science Fiction Novel on the Basis of Examples from Estonian Literature. – Interlitteraria 2004, No 9, pp. 226–237.
- Andrus Org. Fantastic fiction in Estonian literature: fields of genres and their sources of influence. In: Martin Carayol (Ed.). Le fantastique et la science-fiction en Finlande et en Estonie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012, pp. 35–45. (Bibliothèque finno-ougrienne 23.)
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