{"id":221,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kaschan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T08:39:01","slug":"kaschan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kaschan\/","title":{"rendered":"Berit Kaschan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berit Kaschan (born 26. XII 1985) is a poet and an editor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, she defended her master\u2019s thesis on literature at Tallinn University. She has worked as a curator and museum educator at the A. H. Tammsaare Museum in Tallinn, as a managing editor at Tallinn University Press and as the editor of the English language magazine that introduces Estonian literature, the Estonian Literary Magazine (ELM), at the Estonian Institute.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaschan\u2019s first poetry collection Ma naeran magades<\/em> (\u2018I Sleep Laughing\u2019, 2016) was nominated for the Betti Alver Debut Prize and won the literary prize of Tallinn University. Her third poetry collection T\u00e4na piisab v\u00e4hesest<\/em> (\u2018Less is Enough Today\u2019) features her best works written over a year, which are full of the joy and acceptance of living, sadness, and liberating folly.\u00a0 Her poems have been translated into Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Russian. Kaschan\u2019s poems from the collection Hommikune vahetus<\/em> (\u2018The Morning Shift\u2019) made it to the Finnish language Estonian Poetry Map Viron runokartta<\/em> 2020 as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to writing, Kaschan is dedicated to studying and putting into practice the therapeutic effect of literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L. P. (Translated by A. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Poems<\/em><\/strong>
Ma naeran magades<\/strong>. Tallinn: Verb, 2016, 39 lk.
Hommikune vahetus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kaschan AM, 2019, 53 lk.
T\u00e4na piisab v\u00e4hesest<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pu\u00e4nt, 2022, 61 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Aprill<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kaschan AM, 2025, 64 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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