{"id":1155,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kalmsten\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:08:02","slug":"kalmsten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kalmsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Manfred Kalmsten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manfred Kalmsten (real name Sven Palm, born 5 II 1982) is a science fiction and fantasy writer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tKalmsten began to write stories early. His first stories were published in the web fanzine <em>Reaktor<\/em> in 2012. In 2020, Kalmsten published his debut book <em>Raske vihm<\/em> (\u2018Heavy Rain\u2019) which contained stories written in 2012\u20132019 and had partly appeared in web publications. The best-know earlier published story in the book is <em>Raske vihm<\/em>, which had won the Estonian science fiction and fantasy award Stalker. The book also includes the author\u2019s print debut <em>P\u00f5geneda Rottidelinnast<\/em> (\u2018Escape from the City of Rats\u2019) and the story <em>Lumemarjaveri<\/em> (\u2018Snowberry Blood\u2019), which achieved the eighth place in the SF&amp;F story competition in 2019 (organised by the Estonian Science Fiction Association and Fantaasia publisher) and won the Stalker Award in the best short story category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn 2021, the collection of stories <em>Kaarnalaul<\/em> (\u2018Raven Song\u2019) was published in the Orpheuse Raamatukogu (Orpheus Library) series. It describes the demise of the powerful Aekadion empire and the protagonist\u2019s personal ambitions that led to this tragedy. <em>T\u00e4heraua saaga<\/em> (\u2018Stariron Saga\u2019), published in the Orpheuse Raamatukogu series in 2022, is a harsh fantasy story with a Nordic twinge about two brothers and their sister \u2014 the author\u2019s homage to the Nordic sagas, myths and fairy tales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tManfred Kalmsten\u2019s stories reveal influences of Terry Pratchett\u2019s and the Strugatsky brothers\u2019 creation. For his prose, Kalmsten has received the Stalker award in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tManfred Kalmsten has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Short prose<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Raske vihm<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2020. 318 lk.<br><strong>Kaarnalaul<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2021. 154 lk.<br><strong>T\u00e4heraua saaga<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2022. 122 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manfred Kalmsten (real name Sven Palm, born 5 II 1982) is a science fiction and fantasy writer. Kalmsten began to write stories early. His first stories were published in the web fanzine Reaktor in 2012. In 2020, Kalmsten published his &#8230;<\/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-1155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1155\/revisions\/3918"}],"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=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}