{"id":1719,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/jaska\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:06:26","slug":"jaska","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/j\/jaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Vello Jaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vello Jaska (born 9 May 1949) is a poet, playwright, journalist and local historian.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tJaska was born at Pikasilla village in Valga County. Ta studied at Pikasilla and Ala 8-year schools and T\u00f5rva Secondary School. After two years of military service, Jaska acquired higher education at Tallinn Pedagogical Institute in the speciality of Estonian language and literature. He also graduated from the University of Tartu in the speciality of journalism. He has worked as a builder, teacher of Estonian at Aakre boarding school for children with special needs, head of school at Hummuli, border guard officer in Valga County and journalist.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tJaska\u2019s creation has been influenced by life and work on the farm inherited from his parents at Karjatnurme village in T\u00f5rva parish. Jaska has written poems in literary Estonian and in South Estonian Helme dialect. His poems are mostly rhymed, in variable metre. In his poetry collections, he expresses love for his homeland, primarily for the people, nature and heritage of his home region \u2013 Mulgimaa. In his plays, Jaska interprets local historic events and depicts the sore points of present-day life. For years, his plays have been staged at a summer theatre in the yard of Pallo farm in Hummuli parish. The collection of plays Varjus ja valguses<\/em> (\u2018In Shadow and Light\u2019, 2011) contains his popular plays Kui l\u00f5hnab maarjahein<\/em> (\u2018Smell of Sweet Vernal Grass\u2019), Vabakutselised elukunstnikud<\/em> (\u2018Freelance Smooth Operators\u2019) and Valgete pilvede lend<\/em> (\u2018Flight of White Clouds\u2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tJaska has also written several prose books in which he has recorded stories and memories about the past of his locality, its celebrities and highlight events.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tL. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tPoetry<\/em><\/strong>
M\u00f6\u00f6da k\u00f5nnumaad<\/strong>. Valga: Litero, 1998. 75 lk.
Nagu kauge kaja<\/strong>. Valga: Litero, 2001. 55 lk.
M\u00f5ttev\u00e4ljadel<\/strong>. Valga: Litero, 2004. 46 lk.
Kodul\u00e4vel<\/strong>. T\u00f5rva: Litero, 2008. 79 lk.
Kodukeelen<\/strong>: luuletuse Mulgi murden. T\u00f5rva: V. Jaska, 2017. 91 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/em><\/strong>
Juured kodumullas<\/strong>: valik n\u00e4idendeid. Valga: Litero, 2000. 78 lk.
Koduigatsus<\/strong>: n\u00e4idendid. Valga: Litero, 2003. 103 lk.
Ajatuultes<\/strong>: n\u00e4idendid. Valga: T. Gulbe, 2005. 79 lk.
Rambivalgus<\/strong>: n\u00e4idendid. Valga: Litero, 2006. 96 lk.
Varjus ja valguses<\/strong>. T\u00f5rva: V. Jaska, 2011. 133 lk.
T\u00f5rva legend<\/strong>: n\u00e4idendid. T\u00f5rva: V. Jaska, 2018. 96 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLocal history<\/em><\/strong>
Lauludest helisevad aastad: T\u00f5rva meesansambli 40. aastap\u00e4eva juubeliraamat<\/strong>. T\u00f5rva: Litero, 2008. 200 lk.
Hummuli l\u00e4bi aegade<\/strong>. Hummuli: Hummuli Vallavalitsus, 2013. 216 lk.
Hingevalgus: legendaarse Kulli Mari elu lugu<\/strong>. T\u00f5rva: LC T\u00f5rva Mari, 2014. 104 lk.
Kauge aja kutse: muljeid ja meenutusi Mulgimaal Helme vallas olevast Karjatnurme k\u00fclast ning selle k\u00fcla elu ja ilmet kujundanud inimestest<\/strong>. T\u00f5rvas: V. Jaska, 2016. 120 lk.
Seal, kus Emaj\u00f5gi voolab: Pikasilla ajakeerises<\/strong>. T\u00f5rva: Kuldne Lammas, 2020. 207 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vello Jaska (born 9 May 1949) is a poet, playwright, journalist and local historian. Jaska was born at Pikasilla village in Valga County. Ta studied at Pikasilla and Ala 8-year schools and T\u00f5rva Secondary School. After two years of military …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":620,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1719","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1719\/revisions\/3349"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}