{"id":1274,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/lindepuu\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:42","slug":"lindepuu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/l\/lindepuu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hendrik Lindepuu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHenrik Lindepuu <\/span>(b. 11. XI 1958) is a translator from Polish and a playwright.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLindepuu was born at M\u00f5isak\u00fcla in Viljandi county, and educated at \u00dclem\u00f5isa, V\u00f5hma and Viljandi. He has worked at various jobs, including several library posts while living in Finland in the first half of the nineties; subsequently he has been freelance in Estonia. He joined the Writers\u2019 Union in 1987. He has his own publishing company.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the start of his career, in 1979, Lindepuu published poems and short pieces of prose in the press; later he wrote plays based on cultural history: S\u00fcda kaheks <\/i>(\u2018Heart in Two\u2019, staged in 1985 at the Rakvere Theatre), based on Henrik Visnapuu\u2019s correspondence with Hilda Franzdorf-Visnapuu (Ingi); Tol kevadel Tartus <\/i>(\u2018That Spring in Tartu\u2019), based on Hella Wuolijoki\u2019s memoirs, staged at the Vanemuine theatre in 1986; and Kas teda hoida saab <\/i>(\u2018Can She be Kept\u2019, staged at the Vanemuine in 1988), based on the correspondence between Juhan Liiv and Liisa Golding. The poetry collection Ei haise ega l\u00f5hna <\/i>(\u2018It Doesn\u2019t Stink or Smell\u2019) appeared in 2002.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLindepuu has written theatre and film criticism and articles about Polish literature; indeed he is mainly known as a renowned translator of Polish literature, having put numerous plays and prose works into Estonian. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe has been awarded the Aleksander Kurtna prize for translation (1994), the annual prize of the journal Looming <\/i>(1998), the S.I. Witkiewicz prize of the Polish Centre of the International Theatre Institute and the translation prize of the Polish Authors\u2019 Society (1997), the Gold Cross of Poland for Service, first rank (2005), the Estonian Literature Endowment Annual Award for his translations of Tadeusz R\u00f3\u017cewicz\u2019 \u2018Selected poems\u2019 and other important works of Polish literature (2009), the Estonian National Culture Award (2015), the \u2018Live and Shine\u2019 scholarship (2018) and the August Sang prize for poetry translation, for his translation of the poem \u2018Farmer\u2019s Wife\u2019 by Anna \u015awirszczy\u0144ska (2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tPoems<\/em><\/strong>
Ei haise ega l\u00f5hna<\/strong>. Laiuse: H. Lindepuu, 2002, 49 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/em><\/strong>
Haisevad ja l\u00f5hnavad; Memmed ja taadid; Slavoween<\/strong>. Kolm teatriteksti. Laiuse: H. Lindepuu, 2002, 106 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Henrik Lindepuu (b. 11. XI 1958) is a translator from Polish and a playwright. Lindepuu was born at M\u00f5isak\u00fcla in Viljandi county, and educated at \u00dclem\u00f5isa, V\u00f5hma and Viljandi. He has worked at various jobs, including several library posts while …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":631,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3803,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274\/revisions\/3803"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}