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\n\tShort stories<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\"Osvald<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Osvald Tooming<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Osvald Tooming (26.\/13. I 1914 \u2013 6. VI 1992) was an Estonian prose writer and publicist, whose works, with their choice of everyday themes, was broadly based on the aesthetic principles of socialist realism. A central part in his works is played by ethical conflict, usually expressed in egotistical characters\u2019 confrontation with a humane and naturalistic attitude to life.
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Tooming was born into the family of a forest ranger in L\u00e4\u00e4nemaa County, but he spent his childhood and schooldays in Western Virumaa. In 1931 he graduated from Tapa gymnasium and in 1935 began his studies in Tartu in the field of law; however he broke them off in 1939. From the end of secondary school Tooming\u2019s work in various genres began at different publications in Tallinn and Rakvere. From 1940 he worked as executive secretary first at Rahva H\u00e4\u00e4l<\/em>, later at Sirp ja Vasar<\/em>. During the German occupation he was arrested and held until 1942 at the Central Prison in Tallinn. After his release he worked at the Ubja oil-shale mine as a warehouse clerk, and wrote some stories for journals. After the war he continued as executive secretary at the Rahva H\u00e4\u00e4l<\/em> offices, and in 1947 he took up the same post with Looming<\/em>. In that year he became a member of the Writers\u2019 Union. During the Stalinist reprisals he was accused for collaboration with the German occupying power, since he had bene publishing his stories in newspapers at the time. Tooming was arrested and sent to a forestry camp in Kirov oblast, where he remained until 1955, when he was rehabilitated. Later he lived as a freelance writer at Haljala, Viljandi and Kolga-Jaani. He was an active member of the Hunters\u2019 Association and the Society for the Protection of Nature.
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Tooming\u2019s most continuous literary activity began after the war, although six short stories of his had already been published. For the story Kaevandus elab<\/em> (\u2018The Mine is Alive\u2019, 1947), he won the Soviet Estonia prize. The novel Pruuni katku aastail<\/em> (\u2018In the Years of the Brown Plague\u2019) tells of prison life under the occupation; the novel Roheline kuld<\/em> (\u2018Green Gold\u2019) concentrates on the relationship between man and nature. The theme of human ethics, psychology and attitudes to life came to the fore in the stories Luigelend<\/em> (\u2018Swan\u2019s Flight\u2019) and \u00d5petaja Hiiem\u00e4gi<\/em> (\u2018Hiiem\u00e4gi the Teacher\u2019), which Tooming wrote in labour camp, and in other works of the period. The panoramic novel Kaksteist aastat<\/em> (\u2018Twelve Years\u2019, 1963) immortalizes rural life in the years 1949-1961 through a family\u2019s story. Likewise in his later works the treatment of rural and forest life is in the foreground. The compilation Puude taga on mets<\/em> (\u2018There\u2019s a Wood Behind the Trees\u2019, 1972) collects together his appreciative writings on nature.
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Tooming dramatized some prose classics (such as A. H. Tammsaare\u2019s \u2018The Misadventures of the New Satan\u2019, and \u2018Truth and Justice\u2019, Aleksis Kivi\u2019s \u2018Seven Brothers\u2019), but he also wrote plays himself. His first short plays, Tuled s\u00fcttivad<\/em> (\u2018The Fires Are Lit\u2019, 1948) and K\u00fckak\u00fcnka kuningas<\/em> (\u2018The King of K\u00fckak\u00fcnka\u2019, 1949) were intended for amateur theatres. With the subsequent series of plays \u2013 K\u00fclvikuu<\/em> (\u2018Sowing Month\u2019, staged in 1972 at the Vanemuine Theatre), Musta Mandri kasupoeg<\/em> (\u2018Foster-son of the Black Land\u2019, staged in 1981 at the Vanemuine), and Rahva s\u00f5da<\/em> (\u2018Civil War\u2019, staged in 1981 at the Ugala theatre) \u2013 Tooming was contributing to the renewal of the Estonian theatre. The writer\u2019s works for the theatre were often directed by his son Jaan Tooming. He also wrote scripts, such as for the films Salak\u00fctt<\/em> (\u2018The Poacher\u2019), P\u00f5rgup\u00f5hja uus Vanapagan<\/em> (\u2018The Misadventures of the New Satan\u2019), Mees ja m\u00e4nd<\/em> (\u2018The Man and the Pine-tree\u2019). Films have been made based on Tooming\u2019s story \u00d5petaja Hiiem\u00e4gi<\/em> and the novel Perekond Kirretid<\/em> (\u2018The Kirret Family\u2019); Veljo Tormis created an opera based on the story Luigelend<\/em>.
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I. S. (Translated by C. M.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/span>
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Novels<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Roheline kuld<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1950, 410 lk. [2., muudetud tr\u00fckk: 1957.] <\/span>
Pruuni katku aastail. 1. osa: Ainus v\u00f5imalus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1950, 452 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1961.]<\/span>
Perekond Kirretid<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1958, 250 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 1974.]<\/span>
Kaksteist aastat: \u00fche perekonna kroonika<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riikik Kirjastus, 1963, 440 lk<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Short stories and novellas<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
Uued inimesed: kolm jutustust<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riikik Kirjastus, 1948, 357 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Kodumaa kutse<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1950, 272 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Luigelend: kolm jutustust<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riikik Kirjastus, 1956, 398 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Maantee l\u00e4bi metsa: jutustus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1960, 196 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Kuus juttu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1966, 296 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Metsade raamat<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1969, 148 lk.<\/span>
Luigelend. \u00d5petaja Hiiem\u00e4gi. Perekond Kirretid<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974, 424 lk. [Jutustused ja romaan.]<\/span>
Episoodid: jutustusi ja novelle<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1976, 132 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
\u00dcks maja, \u00fcks k\u00fcla\u2026<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1986, 173 lk. \u00a0<\/span>
Seljasirutus. Argip\u00e4evad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 204 lk.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/em><\/strong>
Tuled s\u00fcttivad: n\u00e4idend 3 vaatuses 6 pildis<\/strong>. Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1948, 80 lk. \u00a0
K\u00fckak\u00fcnka kuningas. Naljam\u00e4ng 2-es vaatuses<\/strong>. Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1949, 72 lk. \u00a0
Musta mandri kasupoeg. Rahva s\u00f5da, ehk Valge laev<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1988, 89 lk. <\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Puude taga on mets<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1975, 200 lk. [2., t\u00e4iendatud tr\u00fckk: 1983.]
Osvald Tooming, Peeter Tooming, Maantee kutsub = Highway Attracts<\/strong>. Kohtla-J\u00e4rve: Ida-Viru Maavalitsus, 1993, 223 lk. [Sisaldab peamiselt O. Toominga poolt 1930. aastatel kirjutatud ajakirjanduslikke artikleid.]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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