Timo Maran
Timo Maran (born 13 April 1975) is an ecosemiotician and poet.
Maran was born and attended school in Tallinn. He studied zoology and semiotics at the University of Tartu and defended the doctoral thesis Mimikri kui kommunikatsioonisemiootiline fenomen (‘Mimicri as a communication semiotic phenomenon’) in 2005. He has worked at the Estonian Institute and the Estonian Literary Museum. Maran is head of the Department of Semiotics and professor of ecosemiotics at the University of Tartu. He belongs to the literary grouping Erakkond, the Estonian Writers’ Union (since 2008), the Estonian Literary Society, the Estonian Semiotics Society, the Estonian Naturalists’ Society, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies and the Nordic Association for Biosemiotic Studies. Maran has received the University of Tartu Badge of Distinction (2015). His father is the author of nature films Rein Maran.
Since his debut collection Põhjavesi (‘Groundwater’, 2001), Maran’s domain has been nature poetry. He is known for his pure and unfeigned relation to nature; his personal world is also intertwined with nature. His Metsloomatruudus (‘Wild Animal’s Fidelity’, 2019), which received the Gustav Suits Poetry Prize in 2020, has a philosophical undertone.
Along with treatises on natural science, he has published articles on nature literature, ecocriticism and ecosemiotics.
A. K. (Translated by I. A.)
Books in Estonian
Poetry collections
Põhjavesi: luulet aastatest 1995-2000. Tallinn: Erakkond, 2001, 53 lk
Metsa pööramine. Lelle: M. Lattik, Erakkond, 2007
Poeetiline punane raamat. Luuletused T. Maran, idee A. Ljutjuk. Tallinn: Ajakirjade Kirjastus, Ukraina Kultuurikeskus, 2007, 80 lk
Las ma ümisen: luulet 2005-2015 & Mirkka Rekola luule tõlked. Lelle: Allikäärne, 2015, 79 lk
Metsloomatruudus. Tartu: Elusamus, 2019, 45 lk
Ainult puudutused on: valikkogu. Luige: Verb, 2023, 90 lk
Children’s books
Kodukakk, päevakoer ja teised. Tallinn: Päike ja Pilv, 2015, 39 lk
Academic writing
Mimikri kui kommunikatsiooni-semiootiline fenomen. Dissertationes semioticae Universitatis Tartuensis 7. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2005, 216 lk
Mimikri semiootika. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2008, 218 lk
Ökosemiootika: märgiuuringud ja ökoloogiline muutus. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2022, 158 lk