{"id":1201,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/ekbaum\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:55","slug":"ekbaum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/e\/ekbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"Salme Ekbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems <\/strong><\/a>\"Salme<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNovels<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>

Salme Ekbaum (until 1941 Neumann, 21. \/ 8. X 1912 \u2013 10. IX 1995) was a prose writer and poet working in exile.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was born in Paistu parish, Viljandi county, was educated at Taki and K\u00f5pu, and at the Estonian Education Society\u2019s girls\u2019 gymnasium in Viljandi, and graduated as a pharmacist from the faculty of medicine at the University of Tartu. She worked in several places as a pharmacist. In 1944 she fled to Sweden, and moved to Canada in 1949, where she worked as a professional writer in Toronto. She was a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union in Exile (from 1950) and of the PEN Club. She won the H. Visnapuu Prize in 1980 for the novel Kohtumine lennujaamas <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Meeting at an Airport\u2019, 1979). She died in Toronto, and was buried in Paistu cemetery. The writer Minni Nurme (1917-1994) was her sister. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe made her debut with Valge maja <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The White House\u2019, 1946), a novel written in Estonia but published in Sweden. Her novels can be divided into two parts: those based on farm life and those depicting life in exile. Greater attention was paid to the trilogy of novels Ilmap\u00f5llu inimised <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The People of Ilmap\u00f5llu\u2019, 1948), Lindprii talu <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Outlaw Farm\u2019, 1952) and K\u00fclaliseks on ootus <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Visited by Yearning\u2019, 1952), which depicts the fate of a farm called Ilmap\u00f5llu and its residents in Viljandimaa in the late thirties and forties. The third volume in the trilogy moves on to life in exile, portraying the vicissitudes for the daughters of the family abroad. Also centred on Viljandimaa is the novel S\u00fcteoja <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Coal Creek\u2019, 1957), based around a love story, and \u00d5igusen\u00f5udja <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Plaintiff\u2019, 1962), depicting the mutual accusations between a cottager and a landlord.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides the theme of Estonian farm and village life, the exile of refugees is prominent in the novels: K\u00e4restik <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Rapids\u2019, 1955), Kontv\u00f5\u00f5ras <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Uninvited Guest\u2019, 1966), Vang, kes p\u00f5genes <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Prisoner Who Escaped\u2019, 1975), Kohtumine lennujaamas <\/span><\/i>(1979), Arm ja ahnus <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Mercy and Greed\u2019, 1972). The description of exile changes over time, becoming more nuanced; the contrast between Western pragmatism and spiritual values comes to the fore; it is often difficult for the protagonists to adapt to foreign ways and mentality, admixed with a feeling of a lost homeland. The homeland and natural imagery also dominate her poetry, a survey of which is provided in the selection Kivi kiljatas aknasse <\/span><\/i>(\u2018A Stone Screamed at the Window\u2019, 2005). <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMemoirs are the basis of Varjude maja <\/span><\/i>(\u2018House of Shadows\u2019, 1959), set in a hospital, and which was at one time regarded as one of Ekbaum\u2019s best works, and of Veimevakk <\/span><\/i>(\u2018The Dowry Chest\u2019, 1964), which mainly draws on her youth. The documentary novel Ristitants <\/span><\/i>(\u2018Cross Dance\u2019, 1970) depicts the internal conflicts in the refugee community which came sharply to the fore after the visit of the writer Rudolf Sirge from Soviet Estonia in 1964.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tWorks in Estonian<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNovels<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Valge maja<\/strong>. Vadstena: Orto, 1946, 335 lk.
Ilmap\u00f5llu inimesed<\/strong>. Vadstena: Orto, 1948, 261 lk.
Lindprii talu<\/strong>: teine raamat Ilmap\u00f5llu inimestest. G\u00f6teborg: Orto, 1951, 230 lk.
K\u00fclaliseks on ootus<\/strong>: kolmas raamat Ilmap\u00f5llu inimestest. Toronto: Orto, 1952, 261 lk.
K\u00e4restik<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1955, 259 lk.
S\u00fcteoja<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1957, 286 lk.
Varjude maja<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1959, 294 lk.
\u00d5igusen\u00f5udja<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1962, 302 lk.\u00a0[2. tr\u00fckk:\u00a01993.]
Kontv\u00f5\u00f5ras<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1966, 287 lk.
Ristitants<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1970, 240 lk.
Arm ja ahnus<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1972, 232 lk.
Vang, kes p\u00f5genes<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1975, 218 lk.
Kohtumine lennujaamas<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1979, 192 lk.
Inimene ingel<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1983, 205 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/span><\/b><\/em>
J\u00e4lgkiri tormiuksel<\/strong>: jutte, juhtumisi, legende. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1987, 203 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoetry<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Indiaani suvel<\/strong>. Toronto: Orto, 1951, 73 lk.
Kivi kiljatas aknasse<\/strong>. Stockholm: Vaba Eesti, 1967, 91 lk.
Ajatar<\/strong>. Toronto: S. Ekbaum, 1974, 74 lk.
Lupiinid, lupiinid<\/strong>. Toronto, 1979, 104 lk.
\u00d5hum\u00e4rgi all<\/strong>. Toronto: S. Ekbaum, 1983, 64 lk.
Talioras<\/strong>. Toronto, 1988, 80 lk.
\u00d5htu tiiva all<\/strong>. Toronto: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1992, 112 lk.
Kivi kiljatas aknasse<\/strong>: luuletusi seitsmest kogust. Tallinn: Varrak, 2005, 312 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMemoirs<\/span><\/b><\/em>
Veimevakk<\/strong>: p\u00fchap\u00e4evakarjuse m\u00e4lestusi. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1964, 295 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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