Ene Pajula

Short stories

Ene Pajula (née Jermakov, born 18 February 1950) is a journalist.

Pajula attended school in Tallinn and studied Estonian philology at Tartu State University, graduating in the speciality of journalism. She has worked in the editorial office of Aktuaalne Kaamera (‘Topical Camera’), a news programme of Estonian Television, for the newspapers Läänlane and Õpetajate Leht, as press officer the Läänemaa County Government, later as a freelancer. She is an honorary member of the Estonian Association of Journalists and, in 2019, was awarded the Order of the White Star, class V.

Pajula has published a variety of writings in the press. She is most widely known for her Mammi columns and articles that interpret the world and its events from the perspective of senior citizens, often doing so in a humorous way. The memoirs Olin kuueteistkümnene (‘I Was Sixteen’, 2013) and Kuldne aeg (‘The Golden Time’, 2011) take a look at her school years in the 1960s and the years spent at Aktuaalne Kaamera, respectively. The book Aegade tuhmumatu kuld (‘The Unfading Gold of Time’, 2025) contains 30 stories about legendary ETV presenters and their broadcasts, such as Valdo Pant, Andres Vihalem, Ruth and Rein Karemäe, Mati and Alice Talvik, and Hardi Tiidus, whose working lives were spent in the Gonsiori 27 house of Estonian National Broadcast in Tallinn.

A. K. (Translated by I. A.)

Books in Estonian

Läänemaa and Haapsalu: fotoalbum. Haapsalu: Haapsalu Turism, 1998, 83 lk
Kuldne aeg: fragmentaarium. Kuis kõik kunagi oli 3. Tallinn: Enelas, 2011, 196 lk
Olin kuueteistkümnene: fragmentaarium. Kuis kõik kunagi oli 2. Tallinn: Enelas, 2013, 222 lk
Mammi kaaluvõitlused. Tallinn: Hea Lugu, 2021, 163 lk
Aegade tuhmumatu kuld : kuis kõik kunagi oli 4. Tallinn: Enelas, 2025. 325 lk.