{"id":356,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/lattik\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:16","slug":"lattik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/l\/lattik\/","title":{"rendered":"Vello Lattik"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAbout Vello Lattik<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong>\"Vello<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Vello Lattik<\/span> <\/b>(15. IX 1935 \u2013 30. VIII 2007) was a prose writer and commentator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVello Lattik was born in Tartu into a working-class family. In 1961 he graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Tartu, and worked for a long time as a lawyer, economist and staff member at the Viiratsi Model State Farm. He travelled extensively in the Soviet Union, including the Far East and the island of Sakhalin. Among the positions he held were director of a registry office, engineer, boiler attendant, journalist, border guard \u2013 an experience of life which left its mark on his realistic novels and commentaries in the media.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVello Lattik came to literature through novel and current affairs competitions. As a schoolboy Vello Lattik made contributions to the press, and continued this activity while living in Viljandi. Lattik\u2019s novel about youth, Suudlus lumme <\/i>(\u2018Kiss into the Snow\u2019) appeared in 1963 as a serial in the journal Edasi<\/i>, and in 1981 came out together with the novel Babyloni t\u00fcdrukud <\/i>(\u2018Girls of Babylon\u2019) as a book.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1984 Vello Lattik graduated from the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. In addition to fiction he wrote commentaries, some of which found their way into the journal Looming<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tRecurrent themes in Vello Lattik\u2019s voluminous works are ethics, people\u2019s adherence to their principles, opposition to adapting to circumstances \u2013 be they the restrictions imposed by Soviet stagnation or the market-driven society of early capitalism. Among the settings of the action in his works are a sovkhoz<\/i> collective farm, a slaughterhouse, a boilerhouse, and a collective piggery. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview in 2003, Vello Lattik said: \u201cI don\u2019t have any spiritual riches to reveal and I don\u2019t know how to play with language. I repeat what I say: let a novel be an honest document of its time, and thereby a novelist is a chronicler.\u201d Vello Lattik remained true to his dictum that literature should be true to life, and an author must understand the mind and language of an ordinary person on the basis of his own diverse personal experience. He did not assign importance to style or psychological depth.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFor the novel Kuus head inimest <\/i>(\u2018Six Good People\u2019, 2007) Vello Lattik was awarded the Tammsaare prize for literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/b><\/i>
Pastoraal mummulisest kleidist<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1978. 195 lk.
Kuus head inimest<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1979. 173 lk.
Suudlus lumme. Babyloni t\u00fcdrukud <\/b>[romaanid]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981. 211 lk.
Mihklip\u00e4eval, mihklikuul<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983. 136 lk.
Lend Kanaari saartele<\/b>. Tartu, 1990. 108 lk.
Sirge s\u00e4\u00e4r sukas roosas<\/b>. Viljandi: S\u00fcnnimaa, 1991. 63 lk.
Laul m\u00e4rast tumepunasest ja mustast t\u00e4kust<\/b>. Tallinn: Olion, 1995. 159 lk.
Miljard\u00e4r Roosi r\u00f5\u00f5mud<\/b>. Tallinn: Olion, 1997. 127 lk.
Muhumaa kuumad naised<\/b>. Tallinn: V. Lattik, 1999. 205 lk.
Kohtumiseni unistustes!<\/b>.<\/span> Viljandi: V. Lattik, 2001. 256 lk.
Omakohus<\/b>. Viljandi: V. Lattik, 2002. 215 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/b><\/i>
M\u00e4ttalt m\u00e4ttale<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1974. 111 lk.
Orkester<\/b>: tript\u00fchhon. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1989. 316 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/b><\/i>
P\u00e4ise p\u00e4eva ajal: kevad, 1988<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1989. 45 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTravel writing<\/b><\/i>
Kus sa oled, Larissa? Sahhalini p\u00e4evik<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988. 239 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCommentaries<\/b><\/i>
Olla mees meeste seas<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1967. 54 lk.
\u00dche lavastaja suvi <\/b>[olukirjeldus Viljandi J. Gagarini nimelise N\u00e4idissovhoostehnikumi t\u00f6\u00f6tajatest]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1977. 103 lk.
\u00dcks pohlavars, \u00fcks maasikaleht ja keskele kadakaoksake<\/b> [olukirjeldus]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981. 67 lk.
Valitud publitsistikat<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985. 192 lk.
Siis kui \u00f6\u00f6 on ja uinun\u2019d on Pariis <\/b>[olukirjeldus], Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988. 45 lk.
Kus on, kus on vangi kodu?<\/b> Helsinki, Ministry of Justice, 1999. 79 lk.
Kass ja hiired jagavad urgu<\/b>. Viljandi: V. Lattik, 2000. 133 lk.
Siim, viska padruneid!<\/b>: ballaad. Viljandi: V. Lattik, 2004. 80 lk.
Messias J\u00e4rvamaalt<\/b>: ballaad. Viljandi, V. Lattik, 2006. 80 lk.
Kasakas ja neitsi<\/b>. Viiratsi: V. Lattik, 2007. 95 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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