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Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Peeter<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Novels<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Short stories<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Non-fiction<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

About Peeter Sauter<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peeter Sauter (11. III 1962) is a prose writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of the new generation of writers that emerged in the nineties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born and educated in Tallinn; from 1980 to 1984 he attended the Performing Arts School of the Tallinn State Conservatoire, graduating as an actor, and John Moores University in Liverpool from 1993 to 1994. Among other jobs he has worked as an actor, director and copywriter, and collaborated on several publications. He has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 1999.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sauter began publishing prose in the press in the late eighties. His epoch-making debut novel Indigo<\/em> (1990), which reflects the world of youth in the eighties, brought a completely new method and style to Estonian literature, using colloquial language, slang, low registers, and concentrating mainly on everyday life and simply on existence. The next novel, Luu<\/em>s (\u2018Loafing\u2019, 1997) continues the subject matter and style of the debut novel, as do his short story collections Kogu moos<\/em> (\u2018That\u2019s It\u2019, 1998), Vere jooks<\/em> (\u2018Blood Run\u2019, 2006), Pori<\/em> (Mud, 2002), a self-styled \u2018film story\u2019, which depicts Russian characters, and others. Characteristic of Sauter is a view of life concerned with everyday detail, in which the physiological side, depicted naturistically, plays a crucial part. In Sauter\u2019s world of small people, not much happens mostly; his protagonists simply exist, move around, and alcohol and sex play a big part in their lives.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trilogy of novels \u00c4ra j\u00e4ta mind rahule<\/em> (\u2018Don\u2019t Leave Me Be\u2019, 2012), Sa pead kedagi teenima<\/em> (\u2018You Have to Serve Someone\u2019, 2016) and Kana peni<\/em> (\u2018The Hound of the Chicken\u2019, 2021) depict the mapping of everyday landscapes, intricate failing of close relationships and fragments of the Sauterian drifting in various locations, like in the so-called House of Poor Writers \u2013 an old apartment building in Tallinn owned by the Writers\u2019 Union, where writers and other creative people live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His texts have given rise to controversy and they have been taken as provocative, for example the short story K\u00f5huvalu<\/em> (\u2018Stomach Ache\u2019), which instead of the sententiouspathetic approach found in literature describes childbirth in all its naturalistic details, or his collaboration with the artist Raul Meel to create Lauak\u00f5ne Eesti Vabariigi aastap\u00e4eva puhul kainestusmaja paraskile liiga pikalt istuma j\u00e4\u00e4nud olles<\/em> (\u2018Speech on the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, Having Sat Too Long on the John of a Drunk-tank\u2019, 1998), which makes use of a whole galaxy of low-life terms and words classed as obscene. Sauter has been compared to Charles Bukowski and Jack Kerouac, whose texts he has translated into Estonian. He has also translated poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manfred Vainokivi has made a documentary film about Sauter, Kirjanikuga voodis<\/em> (\u2018In Bed With a Writer\u2019, 2019). Sauter has also participated in Vainokivi\u2019s films Valli Baar<\/em> (\u2018Valli Bar\u2019, 2008) and Vaeste kirjanike maja<\/em> (\u2018House of Poor Writers\u2019, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A selection of the awards given to Peeter Sauter:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-The Friedebert Tuglas short story prize for \u2018Stomach ache\u2019 in 1996 and for \u2018Lethargy\u2019 in 1998
-The Literature Endowment Annual Award in 2006 for Laiskade laste raamat<\/em> (\u2018The Book of Lazy Children\u2019, 2006)
-The Drama Endowment Annual Award for the play Keldris (\u2018In the Cellar\u2019, 2008).
-The Aleksander Kurtna translation prize in 2007
-The Estonian Railways and Sirp newspaper literature prize for the short story collection Vere jooks<\/em> (2006)
-The Go Travel prize for the best travel book Flirt Budaga<\/em> (\u2018Flirt with Buddha\u2019, 2011)
-The Baltic Assembly literature prize for the novel \u00c4ra j\u00e4ta mind rahule<\/em> (\u2018Don\u2019t Leave Me in Peace\u2019, 2013)
-The Virumaa literature prize for the book Lapsep\u00f5lvel\u00f5hn<\/em> (\u2018Smell of Childhood\u2019, 2015)<\/span><\/span><\/span>
-From 2022-2024 he was among the wrires who receive the writers\u2019 salary from the Ministry of Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A. K. (Translated by C. M)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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

Novels<\/em><\/strong>
Indigo<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 223 lk. [2. tr 2016]
Luus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Maa, 1997, 278 lk.
Beibi bluu<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2008, 171 lk.
\u00c4ra j\u00e4ta mind rahule: a love story<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2012, 396 lk.
Sa pead kedagi teenima<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2016, 541 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Surm Bulgaarias: k\u00f5ik hinnas<\/strong>. Loomingu Raamatukogu 14-16. Tallinn: Kultuurileht, 2021, 147 lk
Kana peni<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2021, 336 lk
Varasta p\u00e4eva<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2024, 158 lk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short prose<\/em><\/strong>
Kogu moos<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 1998, 203 lk.
Naise l\u00f5hn, raha l\u00f5hn<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2000, 58 lk.
Tomatisupp<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2000, 50 lk.
P\u00e4tt ja pihiisa<\/strong>: jutustus. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2001, 56 lk.
Pori<\/strong>: filmilugu. (Loomingu Raamatukogu 20). Tallinn: Perioodika, 2002, 80 lk.
Vere jooks<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2006, 287 lk.
Must Peeter<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2011, 340 lk.
Snark<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2013,72 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry collections<\/em><\/strong>
Damoklese m\u00f5\u00f5k ja leivanuga<\/strong>. Koost. J. Rooste. P\u00e4rnu, Saarde: Jumalikud Ilmutused, 2011, 122 lk.
M\u00e4rkmeid vaeste kirjanike majast<\/strong>: poeem. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2012, 175 lk.
Koer ostab kassitoitu<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2014, 175 lk.
Pannkoogid \u00fcksinduses<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2015, 181 lk.
Kodus\u00f5dur<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2018, 135 lk.
Plagiaat<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjanik, 2020, 108 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travel books<\/em><\/strong>
Euroopa hulgus<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2001, 64 lk.
Tsikliga Eestis ja \u0160otimaal<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2002, 68 lk.
Hispaania saapad ja silmad<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2005, 156 lk.
Flirt Budaga: elust ja tsiklis\u00f5idust<\/strong>. Tallinn: Go Group, 2011, 302 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s literature<\/em><\/strong>
Laste raamat<\/strong>: l\u00fchijutud. Tallinn: Huma, 2004, 42 lk.
Laiskade laste raamat<\/strong>: l\u00fchijutud. Tallinn: Huma, 2006, 46 lk.
T\u00fclikas laste raamat<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2019, 76 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memoirs<\/em><\/strong>
Lapsep\u00f5lvel\u00f5hn<\/strong>. Tallinn: Petrone Print, 2015, 236 lk.
P\u00f5rsa paremad p\u00e4evad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Hea Lugu, 2018, 127 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Pl\u00e4ra: artiklid ja vestlused<\/strong>. Tallinn: P. Sauter, 2004, 460 lk.
Postkastid \u00f5rrel: k\u00fclakirjad Saue vallast<\/strong>. Laagri: Saue vallavalitsus, 2017, 142 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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