{"id":1099,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/pilter\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:14:07","slug":"pilter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/p\/pilter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauri Pilter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Lauri<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Novels<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Non-fiction<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

About Lauri Pilter<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Lauri Pilter (b. 15. X 1971) is a prose writer and a poet.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pilter was born in Tallinn. He spent his childhood in Haapsalu. He graduated from Haapsalu 1st Secondary School in 1989. Pilter earned his PhD degree in English language and literature at the University of Tartu with the monograph The Comic and the Tragicomic in the Works of William Faulkner in 2009. From 2007 to 2023, he was a lecturer of world literature at BA and MA levels at the University of Tartu. His scholarly interests include Western classics, particularly mediaeval and Renaissance literature, and the history of Western literary culture from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, with an additional focus on Estonian literature. He has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2012. Since 2020, he has been a collaborator of Estonian Writers\u2019 Online Dictionary; since 2023, a freelancing writer and translator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauri Pilter is the author of the Estonian composite novels Lohejas pilv<\/em> (\u2019A Cloud That\u2019s Dragonish\u2019, 2004), Retk Rahem\u00e4kke<\/em> (\u2019A Journey to the Hail Mountain\u2019, 2010), Uncle Endel\u2019s Grendel (written in English, 2011), Aerudeta k\u00f6israudteel<\/em> (\u2019Oarless on the Funicular\u2019, 2012) and Vilekoor ja teisi jutte<\/em> (\u2019Whistle Choir and Other Stories\u2019, 2014) and of the collection of essays Kaaslased \u00f6\u00f6s<\/em> (\u2019Partners in Night\u2019, 2018). The first novels blend American, mostly Jewish, topics with motifs from post-World-War-Two Estonian history, all of which are conveyed through autobiographical narrative. Occasionally, interior monologue is used. \u2018Whistle Choir and Other Stories\u2019 focuses on a small rural community in which traces of the Estonian Swedish heritage linger. Pilter\u2019s short stories owe a lot to the school of Sherwood Anderson. He has later turned from poetical fiction to writing nature poetry in varied metres. Pilter is winner of the Fr. Tuglas and B. Alver awards for fiction in 2004.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has translated into Estonian Boccaccio\u2019s Fiammetta<\/em> (2014) and Juan Manuel\u2019s El conde Lucanor<\/em> (2019). His other translations into Estonian include works by US and British novelists, for example Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Book of Israel by Jeremy Gavron (with T\u00f5nis Arro), Portnoy\u2019s Complaint and Operation Shylock by Philip Roth (the latter with T\u00f5nis Arro), The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (with Merike Pilter), The Pursuit of Truth by W. V. Quine, Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana,<\/span><\/span><\/span> some short stories by Cervantes and also British, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Proven\u00e7al and Baltic German poetry<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L. P.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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

Fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Lohejas pilv<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2004, 204 lk.
Retk Rahem\u00e4kke<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2010, 152 lk.
Aerudeta k\u00f6israudteel<\/strong>. Charleston: CreateSpace, 2012, 169 lk.
Vilekoor ja teisi jutte<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2014, 152 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poems<\/em><\/strong>
Laikmaa v\u00e4lu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2021, 72 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prose poetry<\/em><\/strong>
Kirju l\u00f5ng<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2025, 55 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essays<\/em><\/strong>
Kaaslased \u00f6\u00f6s<\/strong>. Tartu: Tartu \u00dclikooli Kirjastus, 2018, 82 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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

Fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Uncle Endel\u2019s Grendel, and Other Stories<\/strong>. Charleston: CreateSpace, 2011, 96 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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