{"id":1514,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/afanasjev\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:04","slug":"afanasjev","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/a\/afanasjev\/","title":{"rendered":"Vahur Afanasjev"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

\n\tAbout Vahur Afanasjev<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tVahur Afanasjev (<\/span>given name Vahur Laanoja, 24. VIII 1979 \u2013 10. V 2021) was a poet, prose writer and musician.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfanasjev was born and educated in Tartu, studied economics at the University of Tartu (graduating in 2002) as well as media and communications. He worked in journalism and advertising, and was an official in the structures of the EU in Brussels. He was a member of the Tartu Young Authors\u2019 Associacion from 1998, its chairman in 2001-2002, and was a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2006 until his death.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe made his debut with self-published poetry and song lyrics, and in 1998 with poetry in the journal Vikerkaar<\/i>. His first poetry collection, Kandiline maailm <\/i>(\u2018Angular World\u2019) appeared in 2000. His poetry is socially sensitive, contemporary, occasionally humorous and with a melancholy undertone. Greater attention was paid to his collection T\u00fcnsam\u00e4e tigu <\/i>(\u2018The Snail of T\u00fcnsam\u00e4e\u2019, 2015) and the novel Serafima ja Bogdan <\/i>(\u2018Serafima and Bogdan\u2019, 2017), both of which depicted living conditions in the villages by Lake Peipsi, on the Estonian-Russian border. Both works won the Literature Endowment annual award. The events of the novel Serafima ja Bogdan<\/i>, with its panoramic scope, which has earned much attention and recognition, take place from the Second World War to the end of the eighties, in places displaying the cuttingly painful effects of the Soviet occupation on people and on the culture of the Russian Old Believers, who separated from the Russian Orthodox church in the 17th<\/sup> century and have lived in the outer reaches of the Russian empire. At the centre of the saga-like novel is the life story of Serafima and Bogdan, a twin brother and sister, the only ones of their family left alive, which ends tragically as the result of revenge. In 2017 the novel won first prize in the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union\u2019s novel competition, in 2018 it won the Virumaa literature award, and the V\u00f5tikvere Book Village\u2019s \u2018Elise Rosalie Auna\u2019 literature prize. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe novel \u00d5itsengu \u00e4\u00e4rel <\/i>(\u2018At the Edge of a Prosperity\u2019, 2020) sketches an apocalyptic picture of the near future considering several vital contemporary issues, such as the climate crisis.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe years Afanasjev spent in Brussels are reflected in Minu Br\u00fcssel. L\u00e4bikukkunud euroametinku pihtimus <\/i>(\u2018My Brussels: Confessions of a Failed Euro-official\u2019, 2011), published by Petrone Print in its series of travel books, with a satirical undertone, which won the award for travel books presented by the travel firm Go Travel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAfanasjev was also awarded the stimulus prize in the play-writing competition run in 2007 by the Estonian Playwrights\u2019 Agency for Kiirtee <\/i>(\u2018Expressway\u2019), the annual \u2018Live and Shine\u2019 scholarship of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (2018) and the Tartu City Writer scholarship (2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tNovels<\/b><\/i>
Kastraat Ontariost<\/b>. Tartu: Irboska Teataja Kirjastus, 2005, 160 lk.
Kosmos<\/b>. Tallinn: Jutulind, 2007, 137 lk.
Serafima ja Bogdan<\/b>. Tartu: Vemsa, 2017, 556 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2019.]
\u00d5itsengu \u00e4\u00e4rel<\/b>. Kasep\u00e4\u00e4: Vemsa, 2020, 446 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoetry <\/b><\/i>
Kandiline maailm<\/b>. Tartu: Irboska Teataja Kirjastus, 2000, 78 lk.
Kaantega viin<\/b>. Tartu: Irboska Teataja Kirjastus, 2004, 70 lk.
Katedraal Emaj\u00f5es<\/b>. Tartu, Br\u00fcssel: ID Salong, 2006, 72 lk.
Eesti vaarao<\/b>. Saarde, P\u00e4rnu: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2013, 145 lk.
Kuidas peab elama<\/b>. Tallinn: N\u00e4o Kirik, 2014, 77 lk.
T\u00fcnsam\u00e4e tigu<\/b>. Tartu: Tartu NAK, 2015, 108 lk.
H\u00f5behundi laulud<\/b>. Kasep\u00e4\u00e4: Vemsa, 2020, 123 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/b><\/i>
Kanepi kirik<\/b>: juturaamat. Tartu, Rakvere: Irboska Teataja Kirjastus, 2002, 96 lk.
Kaadrid otsustavad<\/b>: jutud, humoreskid. Tartu: Irboska Teataja, 2007, 239 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTravel books<\/b><\/i>
Minu Br\u00fcssel: l\u00e4bikukkunud euroametniku pihtimus<\/b>. Tartu: Petrone Print, 2011, 253 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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