{"id":1678,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/berk\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:06:34","slug":"berk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/v\/berk\/","title":{"rendered":"Berk Vaher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\n\tAbout Berk Vaher<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tBerk Vaher (born 30 June 1975) is a writer and critic.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVaher was born in Kohtla-J\u00e4rve. He attended school in Viljandi studied English philology at the University of Tartu. Vaher acquired a master\u2019s degree at Warwick University in the UK; his master\u2019s thesis dealt with British subcultures. Vaher was a doctoral student of semiotics and a lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Tartu. He has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 2002, from 2005 (with an interval from 2011\u20132014) chairman of its Tartu department. He belongs to the grouping Erakkond. He has been awarded the title of Tartu Bearer of Culture (2003, 2005), Juri Lotman stipend (2008) and Ants Oras Literary Criticism Prize (2017).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVaher entered literature in the second half of the 1990s; his debut book, the short prose collection Pilved asfaldile<\/em> (\u2018Clouds onto Asphalt\u2019, 2000) stood out with eloquent descriptions of moods and states of mind and abundant images. As characteristic of Vaher, the plot remains in the background; an essential role belongs to dreams and rich intellectual games with the text and texts. For example, the collection Kaval kuuldavus<\/em> (\u2018Cunning Audibility\u2019, 2001) is a complex example of inter- and metatextual connections to which games with punctuation and text formatting are added. In the short story collection Sekeldaja p\u00e4evad<\/em> (\u2018Busybody\u2019s Days\u2019, 2004), the author is recognisable as the main character of several stories; the themes are mainly intellectual. Vaher\u2019s works are methodically composed. A telling example of postmodernist games with language, words, images and meanings is, for example, the novel Lugulaul<\/em> (\u2018Epic Song\u2019, 2002). As characteristic of the author, it presumes an equally erudite reader. His prose books include texts in verse; the separate poetry collection Silmanurga taga<\/em> (\u2018Behind the Corner of the Eye\u2019, 2018) is also based on intellectual and intertextual games with language, texts and meanings.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tArticles on literary criticism and interpretation of literature have been collected into the book S\u00f5nastamatu lend s\u00f5nades<\/em> (\u2018Unwordable Flight in Words\u2019, 2014) where the central place belongs to the treatments of <\/span><\/span><\/span>Valdur Mikita<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Mehis Heinsaar<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ervin \u00d5unapuu<\/a><\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span><\/span>Nikolai Baturin<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBerk Vaher has been one of the most active promoters of experimental culture in Estonia. In 2002, he founded the avant-garde journal Vihik<\/em> and, in 2004, the experimental culture festival Eclectica. He has done radio broadcasts (e.g., the literature programme Spiikker<\/em>), been one of the initiators of the PrimaVista literature festival, written music and acted as a DJ. An example of this line is also the book M\u00fc\u00fcmata naer<\/em> (\u2018Unsold Laughter\u2019, 2006) about talks with the singer-songwriter T\u00f5nis M\u00e4gi. Vaher was also one of the key persons in achieving the title of Culture Capital of Europe for Tartu in 2024.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. K. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
Lugulaul<\/strong>. Tartu: Erakkond, 2002, 383 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoetry<\/em><\/strong>
Kaval kuuldavus<\/strong>: luuletused ja l\u00fchijutud. Tallinn: Erakkond, 2001, 106 lk
Silmanurga taga<\/strong>. Tartu: Elusamus, 2018, 54 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/em><\/strong>
Pilved asfaldile<\/strong>: jutte ja muidujutte 1993-1999. Tartu: Erakkond, 2000, 105 lk
Kaval kuuldavus<\/strong>: luuletused ja l\u00fchijutud. Tallinn: Erakkond, 2001, 106 lk
Sekeldaja p\u00e4evad<\/strong>: novellid. Tallinn: Tuum, 2004, 136 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMiscellaneous<\/em><\/strong>
T\u00f5nis M\u00e4gi, Berk Vaher, M\u00fc\u00fcmata naer<\/strong>. Tallinn: Ilo, 2006, 208 lk
S\u00f5nastamatu lend s\u00f5nades: kirjutisi kirjandusest. I<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014, 310 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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