{"id":2079,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/piirve\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:05:28","slug":"piirve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/p\/piirve\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlin Piirve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/p\/piirve\/stories\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva\">Short stories<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.11in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:108%\"><span style=\"font-weight:normal\">Merlin Piirve (since 2013 Kirikal<\/span>, 23. VIII 1986) is a prose writer and literary scholar.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.11in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:108%\">Kirikal studied Spanish language and culture at the universities of Tartu, Granada and Barcelona. She received master\u2019s degree in literature at the University of Tallinn where she also continues as a doctorate in cultural research. She has worked as an assistant and a lecturer in Spanish at the University of Tartu, and been a research secretary at the Under and Tuglas Literary Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.11in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:108%\">The main themes of her research are modernism, feminism and theories of the body, in the analysis of, for example, the works of Johannes Semper. She has written literary criticism, concentrating mainly on recent Estonian literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.11in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:108%\">Her first book, <i>\u00dche maailmavalutaja m\u00e4rkmed <\/i>(\u2018Notes from a Weltschmerz Suffer\u2019, 2012), which concentrates on a young woman\u2019s interior world, is striking in its stylised, sometimes rampant, \u2018aerobatic\u2019 use of language. The short story <i>S\u00fc\u00fc <\/i>(\u2018Guilt\u2019, 2012) and some prose-poems (2017) appeared in the journal <i>V\u00e4rske R\u00f5hk <\/i>and the short story <i>Sulge uks vaikselt<\/i> (\u2018Close the Door Quietly\u2019, 2016) in <i>Looming<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.11in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:108%\"><i>A. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.08in\">\n<\/p><p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:150%\"><b>Books in Estonian<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0.08in\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:150%\"><em><b>Novels<\/b><\/em><br><strong>\u00dche maailmavalutaja m\u00e4rkmed<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2012, 172 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short stories \u00a0 Merlin Piirve (since 2013 Kirikal, 23. VIII 1986) is a prose writer and literary scholar. Kirikal studied Spanish language and culture at the universities of Tartu, Granada and Barcelona. 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