{"id":1617,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/krants\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:31:44","slug":"krants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/krants\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduard Krants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/krants\/about\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1623\"><strong>About Eduard Krants<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Eduard Krants (real name Endel Pae, 24 August 1926 \u2013 6 September 2005) was a literator and poet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krants was born as a farmer\u2019s son in Ohtu village, Keila parish, Harju County. He attended primary school at Ohtu and secondary school in Tallinn for a few years. In 1944, Krants was drafted into the German army and taken to Germany. After the end of the war, he left Germany for Sweden with the help of Professor Andrus Saareste who used him as a language informant while compiling the conceptual dictionary of the Estonian language (<em>Eesti keele m\u00f5isteline s\u00f5naraamat<\/em>). From Sweden, Krants moved on to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1967, Eduard Krants published the poetry collection <em>Tungalterad<\/em> (\u2018Ergots\u2019) and in 1970 the poetry collection <em>Lumeliitlased<\/em> (\u2018Snow Allies\u2019); both were issued in Toronto. In 2001, the summary collection <em>K\u00e4ib suve\u00f6\u00f6l koiduni tants<\/em> (\u2018Dance is Going on till Dawn on Summer Night\u2019) was published in Estonia. The collection includes poems from the first two collections and later poems from the press and manuscripts. Krants was the first Estonian poet to write epitaph poems grouped into thematically unified series. He started with the series <em>Kaseristid<\/em> (\u2018Birch Crosses\u2019) in the journal <em>Tulimuld<\/em> in 1954. This cycle is characterised by the soldier theme. These are not nationally romantic or grandiloquent heroic songs but harshly realistic, yet poetic images of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author has also written contemplative poetry, sarcastic defiance and protest, ironic social criticism and lyrical love poems free of illusions. Eduard Krants has poems that depict rural and farm life amid the cycle of seasons. He has also written a few prose poems. Krants\u2019s poems have been published in the influential anthology of Estonian poetry <em>S\u00f5narine<\/em> compiled by Karl Muru, as well as in the anthology <em>Eesti ballaad<\/em> (\u2018Estonian Ballad\u2019) compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/merilai\/\">Arne Merilai<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krants was active as a book critic from the 1960s. He mostly reviewed books published in Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eduard Krants was a member of the Estonian PEN club and, under the name of Endel Pae, a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/em><br><strong>Tungalterad<\/strong>: esimene kogu luuletusi. Toronto: LIBRA, 1967. 78 lk.<br><strong>Lumeliitlased<\/strong>. Toronto: Mana, 1970. 62 lk.<br><strong>K\u00e4ib suve\u00f6\u00f6l koiduni tants<\/strong>. Tallinn: Virgela, 2001. 139 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Eduard Krants Eduard Krants (real name Endel Pae, 24 August 1926 \u2013 6 September 2005) was a literator and poet. Krants was born as a farmer\u2019s son in Ohtu village, Keila parish, Harju County. He attended primary school at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions\/5315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}