{"id":1056,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kovamees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T00:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:40:45","slug":"kovamees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kovamees\/","title":{"rendered":"Raissa K\u00f5vamees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plays <\/a>\"Raissa<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Raissa K\u00f5vamees<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raissa K\u00f5vamees (until 1933, nee Kesk\u00fcla; 4. III\/19. II 1907-18. IV 1989) was a prose writer of the Estonian diaspora.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born on Muhu island and studied there, later graduating Kunda adult education center. She worked in retail and after getting married, moved to M\u00f5isak\u00fcla, Muhu. In 1944, she migrated to Sweden and in 1951 to Canada where she settled in Vancouver, which was also where she eventually passed away. Her daughter was the linguist Juta K\u00f5vamees-Kitching (1935-2025).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u00f5vamees debuted in the early 1930s when her short prose was published in the Kuressaare newspaper Meie Maa<\/em>. The majority of her works were written in exile. She gained recognition and was awarded second place at the Orto novel competition for her novel Kahe v\u00e4ina vahel<\/em> (\u2018Between Two Straits\u2019, 1956), which together with the novel On lindudel pesad\u2026<\/em> (\u2018Birds Have Nests\u2026\u2019, 1960) forms a story of a Muhu family from the late 19th century to the 1940s. The author provides a detailed view of local life and uses the local dialect. In both novels, strong female characters hold center stage. The novel Randlased<\/em> (\u2018Coast Dwellers\u2019, 1960) is also set on Muhu. Her artistically most accomplished novel Teela<\/em> (1965) features an interesting main character of the same name and takes place on the mainland. The novel\u2019s sequel P\u00e4risosa<\/em> (\u2018Heritage\u2019, 1969) focuses on village life during the Estonian republic. The author writes about exile in the novel S\u00f5ja lapsed<\/em> (\u2018Children of War\u2019, 1967). Her posthumously published novel T\u00fctarlaps kaugelt merelt<\/em> (\u2018A Girl from a Distant Sea\u2019, 1998) is again set on Muhu island, which is also the setting for the short prose collection Oli kord\u2026<\/em> (\u2018There Once Was\u2026\u2019, 1988).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. K. (Translated by A. S.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Books in Estonian<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novels<\/em><\/strong>
Kahe v\u00e4ina vahel<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1956, 320 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1994.]
On lindudel pesad\u2026<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1960, 319 lk.
Randlased<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1962, 190 lk.
Teela<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1965, 286 lk.
S\u00f5ja lapsed<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1967, 280 lk.
P\u00e4risosa<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1969, 235 lk.
T\u00fctarlaps kaugelt neemelt<\/strong>. Tallinn: Olion, 1998, 299 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories<\/em><\/strong>
Oli kord\u2026<\/strong>. Jutte ja jutukesi m\u00f6\u00f6dunud aegadest. Vancouver: Laurel Press, 1988, 101 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plays<\/em><\/strong>
Kolm n\u00e4idendit<\/strong>. Habaja: Kentaur, 2013, 113 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plays About Raissa K\u00f5vamees \u00a0 Raissa K\u00f5vamees (until 1933, nee Kesk\u00fcla; 4. III\/19. II 1907-18. IV 1989) was a prose writer of the Estonian diaspora. She was born on Muhu island and studied there, later graduating Kunda adult education center. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1056","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1056\/revisions\/7637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}