{"id":1685,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/viitol\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:19:31","slug":"viitol","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/v\/viitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Livia Viitol"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n


Livia Viitol (born 18 December 1953) is an Estonian poet, translator and literary historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viitol was born in Tallinn as the daughter of a veterinarian and a sculptor, attended J\u00f5gisoo Primary School (1960\u20131964) and Tallinn Secondary School No. 10 (1964\u20131971) and studied Estonian philology and Finno-Ugric languages at the University of Tartu (1971\u20131976). From 1976\u20131978, she worked as a proofreader of the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences<\/em>, from 1976 to 1992 as proofreader and technical editor of the journal Linguistica Uralica<\/em>. In 1981, she worked as a teacher at Tallinn Evening Secondary School No. 5. From 2001\u20132005, Viitol was chief treasurer of the Eduard Vilde<\/a> and A. H. Tammsaare<\/a> House Museum in Tallinn, and from 2003\u20132005 its acting director. From 1993\u20132001, and since 2005, she has been a freelancer, in the current century working mainly for the Libri Livoniae publishing company and contributing to translating of literature from Latvian and Livonian into Estonian. Viitol has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viitol\u2019s first short story was published in 1973 in the newspaper of the University of Tartu. Since 1988, her work has been published in the journals Vikerkaar<\/em> and Looming<\/em> and the newspapers Sirp<\/em> and Maaleht<\/em>; interviews, articles and book reviews have also appeared in several other newspapers, e.g., Hommikuleht<\/em>, P\u00e4evaleht<\/em> and Postimees<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has published five poetry collections (the first of them, entitled P\u00e4\u00e4l ja sees<\/em> (\u2018On and In\u2019, 1991), contained emotional and thoughtful lyrical poetry in free verse; the latest, published in 2020, has been described as melancholic), one children\u2019s book \u2014 Ilmakoer Muki<\/em> (\u2018Forsaken Dog Muki\u2019, 2000) and one collection of stories. Her short story \u00d5petajanna saabumine<\/em> (\u2018The Arrival of the Schoolmistress\u2019) was published in the collection Eesti novell 2020<\/em> (\u2018Estonian Short Story 2020\u2019) and won the Friedebert Tuglas<\/a> Short Story Prize. Viitol\u2019s poetry has been translated into English and Latvian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A significant part of her life\u2019s work is the nearly 400-page monograph on Eduard Vilde (2012), for which she received the Eduard Vilde Prize in Literature. Another literary study, Kaks muusat<\/em> (\u2018Two Muses\u2019, 2025), which includes the biography, diary, and correspondences of Liidia Tuulse, was awarded a scholarship from the Ivar Ivask Memorial Fund of the Estonian National Culture Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Latvian, Viitol has translated the texts by Juris Kronbergs, Nora Ikstena, Aleksandrs \u010caks and Valent\u012bns J\u0101kobsons, which have appeared both as books and in periodicals, especially in the journal Looming.<\/em> In addition, she has written introductions and afterwords to Latvian literary works and in 2008 delivered a series of lectures on Latvian literature at the National Library of Estonia together with Guntars Godin\u0161. She has also prepared an exhibition on Hungary\u2019s literary relations with Estonia (together with the Estonian Institute, 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, she received the annual award of the newspaper Sirp<\/em> for mission-sensitive journalism and poetry, in 2017 the Estonian-Latvian language award for translating of Ivask<\/a> and Jakobsons, and in 2019 the 5th class of the Latvian Cross of Recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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


Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Poems<\/strong><\/em>
P\u00e4\u00e4l ja sees. <\/strong>Tallinn, 1991, 72 lk.
L\u00e4ti p\u00e4\u00e4suke. <\/strong>Riia: Petergailis, 2002, 72 lk.
Ajalootund. <\/strong>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2009, 63 lk.
Ebavere m\u00e4el. <\/strong>Tallinn: Libri Livoniae, 2018, 80 lk.
Suur suleaeg. <\/strong>Tallinn: Libri Livoniae, 2020, 79 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s literature<\/strong><\/em>
Ilmakoer Muki. <\/strong>Tallinn: Koolibri, 2000, 64 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prose<\/strong><\/em>
Jutte ja novelle. <\/strong>Tallinn: Libri Livoniae, 2014, 136 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monographs and research<\/strong><\/em>
Eduard Vilde. <\/strong>Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2012, 375 lk.
Kaks muusat. V\u00e4liseesti luuletaja Liidia Tuulse (1912\u20132012) elulugu, 1960. aastate p\u00e4evik, kirjavahetused Bernard Kangro, \u00d5ie Fleigi ja Marie Underiga<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2025, 656 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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