{"id":1980,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kull\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:05:43","slug":"kull","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kull\/","title":{"rendered":"Aivar Kull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/aivar_kull_alar_madisson.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aivar Kull\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/aivar_kull_alar_madisson.jpg\" style=\"float: right;width: 300px;height: 200px\" title=\"Photo: Alar Madisson\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Aivar Kull (born 1. November 1955) is a critic and historian of literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Kull was born in Tartu. He attended Tartu 8-year School No. 10 and from 1971\u20131974 the specialised class of physics and mathematics at Tartu Secondary School No. 1. From 1974\u20131975 he studied mathematics and from 1980\u20131983 Estonian language and literature at Tartu State University. He has worked as a stagehand at the Vanemuine theatre, also as a warehouse keeper and a group attendant at a travel agency. Thereafter, Aivar Kull has been a freelance literator. Member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 1996.<br>\u00a0<br>In the 1970s, Kull published poems in the press. From 1982, he concentrated on literary criticism. He has also written theatre reviews. The characteristic features of Kull\u2019s reviews of literature are deep reverence for the created word and awareness of the traditions of both Estonian and world literature. A great number of his reviews that were published in the press appeared later, in 2005, in the bulky collection <em>Kulli pilk<\/em> (\u2018Hawk\u2019s Glance\u2019), which was followed by the similar book <em>Kull ja kiri<\/em> (\u2018Heads or Tails\u2019) ten years later.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Aivar Kull has written monographs about the writer Oskar Luts (2007), the actor Lembit Eelm\u00e4e (2011) and the writer August Gailit (2022).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">In 2020, a collection of Oskar Luts\u2019s short prose, compiled by Kull, was published.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Kull has translated Russian prose into Estonian.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><em><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Books in Estonian<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong><em>Criticism<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Kulli pilk<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2005. 462 lk.<br><strong>Kull ja kiri<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2015. 310 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong><em>Monographs<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Oskar Luts: pildikesi kirjanikup\u00f5lvest<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2007. 487 lk.<br><strong>Lembit Eelm\u00e4e: n\u00e4itlejaraamat<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2011. 189 lk.<br><strong>August Gailit: Lahtiste allikate poole<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2022. 399 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aivar Kull (born 1. November 1955) is a critic and historian of literature. Kull was born in Tartu. 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