{"id":1261,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/ala\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:44","slug":"ala","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/a\/ala\/","title":{"rendered":"Janar Ala"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShort stories<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Janar Ala (born 8 May 1979<\/span>) is a writer, journalist and critic of popular culture.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe studied semiotics and journalism at the University of Tartu<\/span>. He has worked as a journalist for different publications and as a freelancer. For a longer time, he has worked as a culture journalist for the Postimees<\/span><\/i> newspaper. In 2014, Ala published a book of short prose, Ekraanirituaalid<\/i>, on the title page Ekraanitseremooniad<\/i> (\u2018Screen Rituals\u2019, or \u2018Screen Ceremonies\u2019). The book is based on Facebook posts. Janar Ala has said that it could be called a book of miniatures. The book contains short and sometimes comical stories, most of which were originally written for Facebook and have been somewhat adapted for the book. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2018, Ala published the collection Oma rahva lood<\/i> (\u2018Stories of Our Own People\u2019) which contains published and unpublished stories from 2013\u20132018. The book consists of shorter and somewhat longer causeries which deal with well-known evergreen topics. An essential place belongs to country life \u2013 the stories of so-called simple people and their voices. Janar Ala tells stories about the homely village of Luua and the people of his homeplace.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tL. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/i><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tShort prose<\/b>
Ekraanitseremooniad<\/strong>. Saarde; P\u00e4rnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2014, 115 lk.<\/font>
Oma rahva lood<\/strong>. Tallinn: J. Ala, 2018, 172 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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