{"id":2192,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/pedrokrusten\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T13:14:04","slug":"pedrokrusten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/pedrokrusten\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Krusten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poems<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Short stories<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
About Pedro Krusten<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n


Pedro Krusten (real name Peeter Krustein, also used the pseudonym Salme Mets as a children\u2019s writer, 21 May 1897 \u2013 14 January 1987) was an Estonian writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krusten was born in Harku parish as the son of the gardener of Muraste manor. He attended Rannam\u00f5isa village school and J. Kirsipuu\u2019s progymnasium in Tallinn. In 1916, he completed Tallinn Secondary School of Science. From 1917 he served in the tsarist army. He escaped combat service because of studying at a military school. During the Russian Civil War, he served in the Red Army; in 1921 he returned to Estonia. In the 1920s, he worked as a court clerk of the Tallinn-Haapsalu Circuit Court, from 1926\u20131940 as a columnist, court correspondent and satire writer for the newspapers Vaba Maa<\/em>, Rahvaleht<\/em>, P\u00e4evaleht<\/em> and Eesti S\u00f5na<\/em>, and for a year at a publishing house in Tartu. Krusten was a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 1931 and belonged to the Tallinn Writers\u2019 Society founded in 1939. In 1944, he fled to Germany and from there to the USA in 1950. From 1951\u20131967, he worked for the Estonian Service of the Voice of America. Pedro Krusten died in Arlington, Virginia. In 1992, he was reburied to the Tallinn Forest Cemetery. His brothers were writer Erni Krusten<\/a> (who lived and died in his native Estonia, 1900\u20131984) and cartoonist Otto Krusten (1888\u20131937).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Krusten\u2019s first verses were printed in the journal Looming<\/em> in 1923. His first novel S\u00fcdame rahu<\/em> (\u2018The Calm of the Heart\u2019), published in 1928, won third place in the novel competition of the publishing house Loodus. He also received the same award in the same competition in 1930 for the novel \u00d5ilis vale<\/em> (\u2018Noble Lie\u2019). Krusten was a prolific writer of informal essays and novels, initially writing autobiographical books about wartime but then moving on to more psychological works about exile and home, internal struggles and adjustment. His original style intertwines memories, thoughts and cultural-historical knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krusten gained greater attention as a writer with his novel Vehklem\u00f5isa aednik <\/em>(\u2018Gardener of Vehklem\u00f5isa Manor\u2019, 1936), which depicts his childhood home at Muraste. His most impressive work in exile is the so-called Kaldametsa trilogy: Torn \u00fcle metsa<\/em> (\u2018Tower over the Forest\u2019), Laul k\u00f5rgel kaldal<\/em> (\u2018Song on the High Bank\u2019) and Neiuke l\u00e4ks roosiaeda <\/em>(\u2018A Maiden Went into the Rose Garden\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1958, Krusten received the Henrik Visnapuu<\/a> Literature Prize, issued by the International Estonian Literary Society and the Henrik Visnapuu Foundation as an Estonian literary prize abroad, for the book Kaugelviibija k\u00e4ek\u00f5rval<\/em> (\u2018A Distant Traveller by Your Side\u2019), which describes Visnapuu\u2019s own life and fate after fleeing from the homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 17 August 1933, the newspaper Rahvaleht<\/em> printed Pedro Krusten\u2019s (under the pseudonym Miini Mihkel) little story Liisil on punane pliiats<\/em> (\u2018Liisi Has a Red Pencil\u2019). This seemingly innocent story contained an acrostic poem the first letters of which formed the phrase \u201click your ass, censor\u201d. It was a protest against the introduction of pre-censorship by the government during the then constitutional crisis and state of emergency. The newspaper issues were confiscated, and the newspaper was closed for three months. In 1989, the journal Vikerkaar<\/em> republished the poem to celebrate the escape from Soviet censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to writing, Pedro Krusten also liked to draw. In his youth, his cartoons were published in the newspaper Kilk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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


Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Novels<\/strong><\/em>
S\u00fcdamerahu. <\/strong>Tartu: Loodus, 1928, 184 lk.
\u00d5ilis vale. <\/strong>Tartu: Loodus, 1930, 271 lk.
Punane ohvitser. <\/strong>Tallinn: Aktsioon, 1932, 121 lk.
Vehklem\u00f5isa aednik. <\/strong>Tartu: Noor-Eesti, 1936, 213 lk.
Pime voorus. <\/strong>Tartu: Noor-Eesti, 1938, 188 lk.
Kalle Jaanuse k\u00e4ttemaks. <\/strong>Tallinn: Kultuurkoondis, 1939, 262 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2009, 176 lk].
\u00dcle parda. <\/strong>Augsburg: USA-ala Eestlaste Kirjastus, 1946, 214 lk.
Ihaldatud silmapilk.<\/strong> Vadstena: Orto, 1950, 261 lk.
Inimese hoidja. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1952, 284 lk.
Laev akna taga. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1955, 271 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2004, 200 lk.
Torn \u00fcle metsa. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1959, 295 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1992, 207 lk].
Laul k\u00f5rgel kaldal. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1962, 296 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1992, 207 lk].
Neiuke l\u00e4ks roosiaeda. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1963, 295 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1992, 192 lk].
Pikerp\u00f5ld ja piirapeel. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1968, 256 lk.
Kingitus. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1982, 180 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short stories<\/strong><\/em>
Vasema k\u00e4ega. <\/strong>Tartu: J. M\u00e4llo,1934, 116 lk.
H\u00e4daohtlik tee. <\/strong>Tartu: Noor-Eesti, 1937, 107 lk.
Purustatud pesa. <\/strong>Tallinn: Ilukirjandus ja Kunst, 1941, 184 lk.
Otsiv h\u00e4\u00e4l. <\/strong>Tallinn: A. T\u00f5nisson & Ko, 1944, 127 lk.
P\u00e4\u00e4stja. <\/strong>Geislingen: Kultuur, 1947, 123 lk.
Hiiekaldal. <\/strong>Geislingen: Kultuur, 1948, 173 lk.
Huupi valitud. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1967, 254 lk.
Laevas\u00f5it Leaga. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1973, 228 lk.
Lindude joogin\u00f5u. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1990, 191 lk.
Aedniku armastus. <\/strong>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 344 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children\u2019s literature<\/strong><\/em>
Salme Mets, Mall ja Sass. <\/strong>Geislingen: Kultuur, 1947, 12 lk.
Salme Mets, Malle j\u00e4nku. <\/strong>Geislingen: Kultuur, 1947, 16 lk.
Salme Mets, Eesti laste j\u00f5ulumees. <\/strong>Geislingen: Kultuur, 1947, 11 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/em>
Kaugelviibija k\u00e4ek\u00f5rval. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1957, 255 lk.
Hullumajast m\u00f6\u00f6dumisel. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1972, 252 lk.
Aiapidu lampioonidega. <\/strong>Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1978, 223 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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