{"id":2061,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/meres\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:05:28","slug":"meres","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/meres\/","title":{"rendered":"Triinu Meres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Triinu Meres (born 20 January 1980) is a science-fiction and fantasy writer, poet and editor.
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Meres has studied at Gustav Adolf Grammar School in Tallinn, semiotics at the University of Tartu and nursing at Tallinn Health Care College. Since 2014, she has been working as editor of the science fiction magazine Algernon<\/em>. She is a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2009, Triinu Meres published the poetry collection Lagunemine<\/em> (\u2018Decomposition\u2019), which was favourably met by critics. Triinu Meres writes both rhyming poetry and free verse. The noticeable features of the young author\u2019s sensitive poetry were maturity, irony and self-irony.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2011, Meres won the competition for science-fiction stories arranged by the Estonian Science Fiction Association with her story Joosta oma varju eest<\/em> (\u2018Run Away from Your Shadow\u2019). Her short stories have been published in several collections of science-fiction. Meres\u2019 manuscript of the novel Lihtsad valikud<\/em> (\u2018Simple Choices\u2019) shared the second place at the novel competition of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union. The book was published at the end of the same year and was nominated for the Estonian Literature Endowment Annual Award. The action of the novel takes place on a socially highly stratified planet, but the emphasis is on the complicated maze of relations between the characters and their Shakespearean games of power.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2018, Meres published her second novel Kuningate tagasitulek<\/em> (\u2018The Return of Kings\u2019). The action of the book takes place in a dystopic future world which, compared to the first novel, includes more adventures and mystery (which surrounds the Kings mentioned in the title of the novel), but again, the novel is characterised by social divides and complicated human relations and choices in life.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2019, Varrak publishers issued Triinu Meres\u2019 collection of stories Kuigi sa proovid olla hea<\/em> (\u2018Although You\u2019re Trying to Be Good\u2019). The book includes the eponymous short novel and two other science-fiction stories, all of which deal with people\u2019s difficult choices. Like in Meres\u2019 earlier creation, the stories deal with the issues of good and evil. In addition to them, Meres has published about a dozen science-fiction stories in magazines and anthologies.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMeres has edited translations of the world\u2019s adventure literature classics and science-fiction books.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
Lihtsad valikud<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2017. 271 lk.
Kuningate tagasitulek<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2018. 395 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/em><\/strong>
Kuigi sa proovid olla hea<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2019. 246 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoetry<\/em><\/strong>
Lagunemine<\/strong>. Tartu: Hermes, 2009. 62 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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