{"id":1607,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/rohelend\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:25:20","slug":"rohelend","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/r\/rohelend\/","title":{"rendered":"Birk Rohelend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Birk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birk Rohelend (<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>real name Hele-Riin Pihel, before that Hele-Riin P\u00e4hn and Hele-Riin Moon; 17. IV 1981) is a prose writer, poet and screenwriter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birk Rohelend was born in Viljandi. She studied there, at the University of Tartu (genetic engineering); Baltic, Film, Media and Arts School; Estonian Academy of Arts and the Tallinn University of Technology (master\u2019s studies). She has worked various jobs in sports, advertising, and marketing; currently, she is the Head of the Center of E-Channels at the Tallinn University of Technology. She belonged to the 2000s young writers grouping Purpurmust Org. She is a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her debut novel Mina, Mortimer<\/i> (\u2018I, Mortimer\u2019, 2007, third place at the 2006 young adult novel competition organized by the Estonian Children\u2019s Literature Center and T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev Publishers) and Enesetapjad<\/i> (\u2018Suiciders\u2019, 2009, first and second place at the same competition) focus on the self-searching of youths. The novels have dark undercurrents like her other works. Characters at war with themselves and\/or the world are a recurring motif, they may also express misanthropic sentiments. Similarly are the views of a chauvinistic macho man exposed to the reader in the novel Minu s\u00f5raline s\u00f5ber<\/i> (\u2018My Hoofed Friend\u2019, 2009, third place at a novel competition by the Estonian Novel Society). The character has a dark past, which leads to him considering the illness ravaging his body to be his only true friend. At the literature competition Bestseller 2015, her novel Mull <\/i>(\u2018Bubble\u2019, 2016) won second place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sa pead suudlema Silvat<\/i> (\u2018You Must Kiss Silva\u2019, 2016) and Kuldne laps <\/i>(\u2018Golden Child\u2019, 2018) belong the Silvia St\u00f6kel crime novel series that star a single mom who is an investigative journalist. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Since then, Rohelend has focused mainly on crime fiction, publishing the novels \u201cWho Killed Otto M\u00fcller?\u201d (2021) and \u201cThree Drops of Blood\u201d (2026). The first of these was also adapted into a television series of the same title (2022, directed by Ren\u00e9 Vilbre), for which Rohelend also wrote the screenplay. She has also (co-)written screenplays for other TV-shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poetry collection Morbidaarium<\/i> (\u2018Morbidarium\u2019, 2012) is inspired by personal experience, development, and failure of hopes, and portrays the world of the 1980s generation. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. K. (Translated by A. A.)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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

Novels<\/b><\/em>
Mu s\u00f5raline s\u00f5ber<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tammerraamat, 2009, 214 lk.
Mull<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pilgrim, 2016, 192 lk.
Sa pead suudlema Silvat<\/strong>. Tallinn: Helios, 2016, 271 lk.
Kuldne laps<\/strong>. Tallinn: Helios Kirjastus, 2018, 301, lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
Kes tappis Otto M\u00fclleri?<\/strong>. Tallinn: Postimees Kirjastus, 2021, 384 lk.
Kolm tilka verd<\/strong>. Tallinn: Rahva Raamatu Kirjastus, 2026, 299 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poems<\/b><\/em>
Alexander ja Belle: ballaad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tammerraamat, 2009, 122 lk.
Morbidaarium<\/strong>. Tallinn: Roheline Kuu, 2012, 111 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young adult prose<\/b><\/em>
Mina, Mortimer<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2007, 117 lk.
Enesetapjad<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2009, 224 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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