{"id":215,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/antisaar\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:59:36","slug":"antisaar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/s\/antisaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti Saar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novels<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Anti<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Plays<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Anti Saar (pseudonym Salmo Salar, born 9 May 1980) is a writer and translator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saar was born at Luunja. He attended Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu and graduated from the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in 2005 with the over 300-page monograph T\u00e4hesadu. Preikonograafilise intuitsiooni v\u00f5imalikkus<\/em> (\u2018Star Downpour. The Possibility of Pre-iconographic Intuition\u2019).\u00a0He is the owner of the company Kolm Elu which produces plywood pinball machines for children. Saar is a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 2008. His brother is writer <\/span><\/span><\/span>Peedu Saar<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He entered literature with writings meant for grown-ups. The prose excerpt published in the journal Vikerkaar<\/em> in 2006, Kuidas sa \u00e4ra l\u00e4ksid ja mina maha j\u00e4in<\/em> (\u2018How you left and I stayed behind\u2019) received the Esimene Samm (First Step) award at Tartu Prima Vista literary festival, which is given to the author of the best debut fiction text published in the print press. An essential place in both his debut book, the short prose collection Kuidas sa \u00e4ra l\u00e4ksid ja mina maha j\u00e4in<\/em> and the short novel Nemad kaks<\/em> (\u2018The Two of Them\u2019) belongs to the theme of writing about writing. The author experiments with genres, analyses writing and the author\u2019s role. An original writing experiment which shows the author\u2019s good feeling for the language and sensitivity for words is S\u00f5naraamat<\/em> (\u2018Wordbook\u2019, 2022). It is based on nouns sent to the author at a fixed time every day, and he had fifteen minutes for describing them. The result is a unique dictionary rich in connotations and allusions.<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u201cTree on a Bump\u201d (2023) contains Anti Saare\u2019s drawings of trees and reflections on drawing, trees, and his recently deceased father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Play on words also has an essential place in children\u2019s books, for example in Kojamees Urmas<\/em> (\u2018Urmas, the Maintenance Man\u2019, 2015), which was awarded the title of the Good Children\u2019s Book. Actually, Saar has been most broadly recognised as a children\u2019s writer and as a translator. His first book for children, Kuidas meil asjad k\u00e4ivad<\/em> (\u2018The Way Things Are with Us\u2019, 2013) received the Raisin of the Year Award, Literature Endowment Annual Award, title of a Good Children\u2019s Book (all 2013) and the White Ravens Award (2014). The P\u00e4rt series also concentrates on the matters of a family as seen through the eyes of an active little boy, a character typical of Anti Saar\u2019s books. From this series, P\u00e4rt ei oska saltot<\/em> (\u2018P\u00e4rt Can\u2019t Do a Backflip\u2019, 2017) received the J\u00e4rje Hoidja Award to the author of the Estonian children\u2019s or youth book that has been most often checked out from the Tallinn Central Library (2017) and Seisa siin, P\u00e4rt!<\/em> (\u2018Stand Here, P\u00e4rt\u2019, 2018) the title of a Good Children\u2019s Book (2018). The last-mentioned prize was also given to the book K\u00fclask\u00e4ik<\/em> (\u2018The Visit\u2019, 2017) where a journey into the inside of an apple helps overcome the sorrow of grandmother\u2019s death. The stories capture the child\u2019s psychology and world of thoughts, being enthralling and adventurous, finding something special in everyday matters.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An insight into art history and everyday life of the past is provided in the book Mina, Milda ja meister Michel<\/em> (\u2018Milda, Master Michel and I\u2019, 2018), which presents the life and creation of Michel Sittow (1469\u20131525), a Tallinn artist of Dutch descent. The book received the Raisin of the Year Award. <\/span><\/span><\/span>The poetry collections Suur koogitegu<\/em> (\u2018The Great Pancace Baking\u2019, 2020) and \u00d5udne lugu<\/em> (\u2018Horror Story\u2019, 2022) have both been awarded the Karl Eduard S\u00f6\u00f6t<\/a>\u2018s Children\u2019s Poetry Prize. Kuidas istuda, kuidas astuda<\/em> (\u2018How to Sit, How to Walk\u2019, 2023) brought Saar the Literature Endowment Annual Award. The detective story for children, Kajakad<\/em> (\u2018Seagulls\u2019, 2025) was awarded the Tartu Children\u2019s Literature Prize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti Saar has translated prose and texts on philosophy and the humanities from French, for example volumes 2 and 3 of Marcel Proust\u2019s novel \u2018In Search of Lost Time\u2019, George Perec,\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Breton,\u00a0Bruno Latour,\u00a0Gilles Deleuze and\u00a0F\u00e9lix Guattari. In 2017, he received the Literature Endowment Annual Award for translation of philosophical literature for a selection of essays by Jacques Ranci\u00e8re Esteetika kui poliitika<\/em> (\u2019Aesthetics as Politics\u2019)<\/span><\/span><\/span>, in 2025 the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (French Order of Arts and Letters) for translation of French literature and philosophy into Estonian. In 2019-2021, Anti Saar was the recipient of the Writer\u2019s Salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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


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

Novels<\/em><\/strong>
Nemad kaks<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2008<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short prose<\/em><\/strong>
Kuidas sa \u00e4ra l\u00e4ksid ja mina maha j\u00e4in<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2006, 149 lk
Tekste siledast ruumist<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2009, 101 lk
S\u00f5naraamat<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2022, 149 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Puu p\u00f5ndakul<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2023, 126 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books for children<\/em><\/strong>
Kuidas meil asjad k\u00e4ivad<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2013, 134 lk [j\u00e4rgmised tr\u00fckid: 2014, 2020]
Kojamees Urmas<\/strong>. Tallinn: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2015, 24 lk
Juturaamat<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2016, 73 lk
K\u00fclask\u00e4ik<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2017, 24 lk
P\u00e4rt ei oska saltot<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2017, 25 lk
Mina, Milda ja meister Michel<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Kunstimuuseum, KUMU, 2018, 79 lk
P\u00e4rt ja ploomid<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2018, 26 lk
P\u00e4rt ja viimane koogit\u00fckk<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2018, 25 lk
Seisa siin, P\u00e4rt!<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2018, 28 lk
P\u00e4rt l\u00e4heb uuele ringile<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2019, 28 lk
P\u00e4rt plindris<\/strong>. Saue: P\u00e4ike ja Pilv, 2020, 94 lk
Anni asjad<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2020, 80 lk
Suur koogitegu<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2020, 44 lk
10 v\u00e4hem v\u00f5i rohkem uskumatut lugu sellest, kuidas minust ei saanud kirjanikku<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2021, 106 lk
\u00d5udne lugu<\/strong>: hoiatuseks lastele ja vanematele. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2022, 69 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Kuidas istuda, kuidas astuda<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2023, 106 lk.
H\u00e4rra Haraldi unistuste aed<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2024, 34 lk.
Konn<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2024, 48 lk.
Kajakad<\/strong>. Tartu: Kolm Elu, 2025, 191 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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