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Juhan Habicht <\/span>(24 I 1954 \u2013 12 II 2026) was an Estonian prose writer and a prolific translator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born at N\u00f5mme in Tallinn and attended 27th primary school and 1st secondary school. In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Tartu. From 1978 to 1990 he worked as a programmer in the industrial laboratory on the technology of detail design of turbines at the Tallinn University of Technology. From 1990 to 1992 he was a senior economist at the Institute of History, a translator at the Katherine publishing house, an instructor in computer studies at both the Labour Market Office and the Estonian Institute of Art, and later as a technical writer and staff member on motoring journals. From 1993 to 1997 he was a consultant to the Estonian National Commission of UNESCO. Since 1997 until his death he was a freelance, mainly translating thrillers and science fiction. Habicht has taken part in the activities of the Tartu and Tallinn Young Authors\u2019 Associacion (NAK), and from 1984 to 1986 he was chairman of the Tallinn NAK. From 2002 to 2017 he was chief editor of the electronic science-fiction journal Algernon<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the seventies Habicht published a few short stories in journals and in the 1977 anthology Noori autoreid <\/i>(\u2018Young Authors\u2019). His first story collection, Veerevad kivid rataste all <\/i>(\u2018Rolling Stones Under the Wheels\u2019) appeared in 1983, and a collection of short prose, Veevalaja <\/i>(\u2018Water-carrier\u2019) in 1987. Habicht\u2019s imagery was realistic for the period; the protagonists often came from his own circle. In 1990 he and T\u00f5nu Trubetsky published a science fiction story they had written together, \u2019Igavene suvi\u2019 (\u2018Eternal Summer\u2019) in the journal Vikerkaar, <\/i>the prototypes for which were members and acquaintances of the popular punk group Vennaskond. Similar to this is another work written with Trubetsky, Inglid ja kangelased <\/i>(\u2018Angels and Heroes\u2019), which came out in 1992. In 1993 appeared Habicht\u2019s novel Selles m\u00e4ngus ei h\u00fcpata <\/i>(\u2018We Do Not Jump In This Game\u2019) <\/span>\u2013 a crime novel about the underworld Estonia of the nineties, inspired by the innovative role-playing computer games of the period (such as \u2018Larry\u2019 and \u2018Space Guest\u2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> 30 years later, he published a sci-fi novel Kui tuugenid vaikisid<\/em> (\u2018When the Wind Turbines Went Silent\u2019, 2023) \u2013 a coming-of-age story of an Estonian boy in fictitious post-apocalyptic world where the green transition has ended in disaster and three-quarters of humankind has perished. It was followed by a sequel Tuugenite \u00fcmber<\/em> (\u2018Around the Wind Turbines\u2019, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juhan Habicht was one of the main promoters of cyberpunk science fiction in Estonian. Probably the first cyberpunk story in Estonian, \u2018Warcraft n_thousand\u2019 (Vikerkaar<\/i>, 1997) was written by him, and he also translated into Estonian the works of his favourite author William Gibson (such as the novel Idoru<\/i>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Habicht translated abundantly \u2013 over a hundred works \u2013 from both science fiction (Roger Zelazny, Frank Herbert, Charles Stross, Genevieve Cogman, Jeff Vandermeer and others) and thrillers and classics of literature (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Brautigan and others).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Novels<\/em><\/strong>
Selles m\u00e4ngus ei h\u00fcpata<\/strong> [romaan]; Must koer, ehk, Proloog, ehk, K\u00fcmme astat varem<\/strong> [novell]. Tallinn: Katherine, 1993, 172 lk.
Trubetsky, Pathique, Habicht, Inglid ja kangelased<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kirjastuskeskus, 2002, 270 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Kui tuugenid vaikisid<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2023, 205 lk.
Tuugenite \u00fcmber<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2025, 183 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories<\/em><\/strong>
Veerevad kivid rataste alt<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983, 87 lk.
Veevalaja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 144 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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