{"id":1456,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/vaik\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:11","slug":"vaik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/v\/vaik\/","title":{"rendered":"Mait Vaik"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMait Vaik <\/span>(b. 22. VIII 1969) is a writer and musician.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born in Tallinn. From 1989 to 1995 he played bass guitar in the band Vennaskond; since 2002 he has been in the band S\u00f5pruse Puiestee. He also wrote the music for both bands. He has created lyrics for many Estonian bands, some of which have achieved nationwide popularity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVaik\u2019s first book, K\u00f5igil on alati \u00f5igus <\/i>(\u2018Everyone is Always Right\u2019, 2012) is a collection of poems and song lyrics. Vaik creates rhymed poetry, the subject matter of which is socially sensitive, serious and empathetic in its authorial stance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMoving from song lyrics to prose brought Vaik almost immediate success. Both of his collections of stories, T\u00f6\u00f6p\u00e4eva l\u00f5pp <\/i>(\u2018End of the Working Day\u2019, 2014) and Meelparanduseta <\/i>(\u2018Unrepentant\u2019, 2016) were well received by the critics. The short story Puhtus<\/i> (\u2018Purity\u2019), from the collection T\u00f6\u00f6p\u00e4eva l\u00f5pp<\/i>, won the Friedebert Tuglas short story prize in 2015. The collection Meeleparanduseta <\/i>won the Literature Endowment annual award in 2016. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMait Vaik\u2019s first novel, Kurvake s\u00fcgis<\/i> (\u2018Sad Autumn\u2019) appeared in 2018, and was nominated for the European Union literature prize in 2020. This book displays everything that is characteristic of Vaik\u2019s prose: a rather robust, but suggestive style, and an ability to look closely at complex subjects such as drug addiction, alcoholism or some other form of degeneracy, belief or the lack of it, failure in a success-driven society.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMait Vaik has belonged to the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tL. P. (Translated by C. M.)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>

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

\n\tNovels<\/b><\/em>
Kurvake s\u00fcgis<\/strong>. Tallinn: Puiestee, 2018. 302 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/b><\/em>
Juss ja vennad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Puiestee, 2013. 110 lk. [L\u00fchiromaan.]
Juss ja vennad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014. 213 lk. [L\u00fchiromaan ja jutud.]
T\u00f6\u00f6p\u00e4eva l\u00f5pp<\/strong>. Jutustused. Tallinn: Puiestee, 2014. 143 lk.
Meeleparanduseta<\/strong>. Tallinn: Puiestee, 2016. 175 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoems<\/b><\/em>
K\u00f5igil on alati \u00f5igus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Puiestee, 2012. 159 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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