{"id":320,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/vint\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:38:47","slug":"vint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/v\/vint\/","title":{"rendered":"Toomas Vint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

About Toomas Vint<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toomas Vint <\/span>(b. 5. III 1944) is a painter and writer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born in Tallinn, attended number 10 secondary school there, and from 1962 to 1966 studied biology at the State University of Tartu. From 1967 to 1971 he worked as an assistant director at Estonian Television. Thereafter he became a freelance artist and writer. Toomas Vint has been a member of the Estonian Artists\u2019 Union since 1973 and of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 1977. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968 Toomas Vint\u2019s poetry collection Suitsupilvedest unistus <\/i>(\u2018Dream in Clouds of Smoke\u2019) in the almanac publication Hees<\/i>, which circulated in manuscript, and contained the author\u2019s own linocuts as illustrations. In the same year Vint\u2019s first prose pieces appeared in the press. The seventies were very productive for Toomas Vint as a writer. He produced numerous collections of short prose. The work of Vint\u2019s earlier period carries the keynotes of solitariness, conflicting mental states, the interweaving of unreality and reality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a somewhat less productive period, a new creative resurgence began in 1995. Almost every year Vint produced a new work. Post-modernist features started to appear in the novels. The novel Kojamehe naine <\/i>(\u2018The Janitor\u2019s Wife\u2019, 1995) shocked readers with its sexual openness; the novel L\u00f5ppematu maastik <\/i>(\u2018Endless Landscape\u2019) did so with its use of prototypes from real life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toomas Vint is a writer with a distinctive style. His strength lies primarily in appreciating and describing a person\u2019s mental life. His protagonists are contemporary people, distinguished by solitariness, uncertainty and yearning. Often this situation is explained by the protagonist, rather than by his surroundings. Characters behave irrationally, and they are rarely happy. In some novels Vint has concentrated on the mutual relationship between life and art. He loves the grotesque, the playful, and his short stories have unexpected and clever turns.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toomas Vint has produced eleven collections of stories and twelve novels. Three times, in 1979, 1984 and 2012 he has won the Friedebert Tuglas short story award. In 1997 his novel L\u00f5ppematu maastik <\/i>won the Literature Endowment annual award. In 2012 Vint was decorated with the Order of the White Star, Class III. In 2014 Vint\u2019s collection, consisting of reproductions of 16 paintings with 16 short stories, M\u00f5ned kummalised naised <\/i>(\u2018A Few Strange Women\u2019), appeared, and was awarded the Eduard Vilde literature prize in 2015. The poetry collection 1968<\/i>, which appeared in 2018, recalls the author\u2019s bohemian youth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L. P. (Translated by C. M.)<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Novels<\/b><\/i>
V\u00e4ikelinna romaan<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980. 160 lk.
Suur isane kala akvaariumis<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985. 127 lk.
Kojamehe naine<\/b>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1995. 142 lk.
L\u00f5ppematu maastik<\/b>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1997. 253 lk.
Kunstnikuromaan<\/b>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1998. 335 lk.
N\u00e4dalavahetusel. M\u00e4ngides<\/b>. Tallinn: Varrak, 1999. 166 lk.
Kaine kuu ja purjus p\u00e4ike<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2001. 224 lk.
Minu abielu prostituudiga<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2003. 236 lk.
Topeltvalguses [Triloogia 2. raamat]<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2005. 270 lk.
M\u00e4luauguga naine [Triloogia 3. raamat]<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2007. 194 lk.
\u00dc\u00fcriline<\/b>. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2009. 258 lk.
Avalikult abielust<\/b>. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2012. 229 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short prose<\/b><\/em>
Kahel pool hekiga palistatud teed<\/b> [novellid]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974. 157 lk.
Ringm\u00e4ng<\/b> [jutustus]. Tallinn: Perioodika, 1975. 72 lk.
Perekondlikud m\u00e4ngud<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1977. 242 lk.
P\u00f6\u00f6re & veerem\u00e4ng <\/b>[novellid ja l\u00fchijutud]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1979. 164 lk.
Tantsud Mozarti saatel <\/b>[novellid ja l\u00fchijutud]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983. 165 lk.
Kahekesi <\/b>[novellid]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988. 142 lk.
Naisepiinaja. \u00d5nnenatukene<\/b>. Tallinn: Olion, 1996. 216 lk.
Elamise sulnis \u00f5udus<\/b>. Kogumik jutte ja m\u00e4lestusi. Tallinn: Kunst, 2000. 220 lk.
Himm<\/b>. Jutustused. Tallinn: Tuum, 2002. 117 lk.
\u00d5nneliku l\u00f5puga lood<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2004. 216 lk.
Kunstniku elu<\/b>: jutte ja m\u00e4lestusi. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2011. 165 lk.
M\u00f5ned kummalised naised<\/b>. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2014. 239 lk.
Meeldivalt t\u00fchi ruum<\/b>. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2019. 235 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poems<\/b><\/i>
Suitsupilvedest unistus<\/b>. Tallinn: Noorte Autorite Koondis, 1968. 31 lk.
1968<\/b>. Tallinn: Tulikiri, 2018. 85 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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