{"id":372,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/mutt\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:15","slug":"mutt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/mutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mihkel Mutt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNovels <\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Mihkel<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNon-fiction<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Mihkel Mutt<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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Mihkel Mutt (b. 18 February 1953) is an Estonian writer, essayist and critic. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born in Tartu; his father Oleg Mutt was associate professor of English at the University of Tartu. He received his education in a class specialising in literature at Tartu Secondary School No. 8 and Tartu State University where he studied Estonian philology and journalism. From 1976\u20131977 he worked as editor of children\u2019s and young adult literature for Eesti Raamat publishers, 1977\u20131986 editor of the journal Looming, 1988\u20131990 dramaturge of the Estonian Youth Theatre, 1991\u20131992 head of information office at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1992\u20131993 worked for the newspapers Eesti Ekspress, Eesti Aeg and Hommikuleht, 1997\u20132005 editor-in-chief of the culture newspaper Sirp and 2005\u20132016 editor-in-chief of the literary journal Looming. From 2016\u20132018 Mutt received the writer\u2019s salary from the state. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMihkel Mutt has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 1980, being a member of its board for several times; a member of the Estonian PEN-club since 1992, has been its president.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMutt made his literary debut in 1966 when the school yearbook Tipa-Tapa<\/i> published his first translation of a short story from English. During his university studies, he participated in the activities of Tartu Young Authors\u2019 Association. He attracted greater attention in the 1970s\u201380s, at the beginning of his career as a prose writer. In his later creation, which is considered a critical and ironical view of a parodied society, and which has also been called alternative literature, he has expressed himself through his alter ego<\/i> Fabian who acts as a connecting link between his works. <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMutt\u2019s works have been translated into Finnish, Russian, English, German, and other languages. A television film directed by Ingo Normet has been made after his novel Pingviin ja raisakass<\/i> (\u2018The Penguin and the Carrion Cat\u2019).<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMihkel Mutt has translated Tom Stoppard\u2019s, Arnold Wesker\u2019s, Neil Simon\u2019s, Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s and David Pownall\u2019s plays from English and written scripts for television. He has been a fertile literary and theatre critic and a permanent columnist of the newspapers Eesti P\u00e4evaleht and Postimees.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1981 and 2008 Mihkel Mutt received the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Prize respectively for his stories \u00d5pilane Fabian<\/i> (\u2018Student Fabian) and Siseemigrant<\/i> (\u2018The Internal Emigrant\u2019), in 1987 the Juhan Smuul Award for the book N\u00e4\u00e4rivana<\/i> (\u2018Father Cristmas\u2019, published in English in 1990), in 1994 and 2013 the Virumaa Literary Prize respectively for the books Rahvusvaheline mees<\/i> (\u2018The International Man\u2019) and Kooparahvas l\u00e4heb ajalukku<\/i> (\u2018The Cavemen Chronicle\u2019, published in English ion 2015) and in 2013 the Eduard Vilde Literary Award for Eesti \u00fcmberl\u00f5ikaja<\/i> (\u2018The Estonian Circumciser\u2019). For the latter, he was also awarded the title of the Writer of the Year.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1999, he earned the Literature Endowment Annual Award for Muti tabloid<\/i> (\u2018Mutt\u2019s Tabloid\u2019) and in 2014 for \u00d5htumaa Eesti<\/i> (\u2018Occidental Estonia\u2019). In 2020 he received the Cultural Endowment Annual Award for literature for his collection of essays Maailmas peegelduv veetilk. Arutlusi Eestist, kultuurist, ajaloost<\/i> (\u2018A Drop of Water Reflected in the World. Reflections of Estonia, Culture, History\u2019), which was published in the series Eesti m\u00f5ttelugu<\/i> (\u2018History of Estonian Thought\u2019). <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe has also earned several theatrical awards: in 1978 and 1982 the State Criticism Award for theatre criticism, in 1994 and 2000 the criticism award of the Estonian Theatre Union, in 1990 the Aleksander Kurtna Translation Award for the translation of Tom Stoppard\u2019s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead <\/i>into Estonian.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2000 he received the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class, and the Estonian Cultural Endowment scholarship Ela ja s\u00e4ra<\/i> (\u2018Live and Shine\u2019), in 2001 the Concord Award of the Open Estonia Foundation. In 2008, the Postimees newspaper awarded him the title of the Opinion Leader of the Year.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tM. K. (Translated by I. A.)<\/i><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/i><\/strong>
Hiired tuules. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1982, 207 lk; [2. tr\u00fckk, Muti raamat, 2001, 264 lk; 3. tr\u00fckk, Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2009, 256 lk.]
Keerukuju. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985, 160 lk.
Kallid generatsioonid. <\/b>Tallinn: Perioodika (LR), 1986, 152 lk.
Pingviin ja raisakass. <\/b>Tallinn: <\/b>Kupar, 1992, 94 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Fabian, 2013, 150 lk.]
Rahvusvaheline mees. <\/b>etf, 1994, 205 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2009, 278 lk.]
Progressiivsed hiired. <\/b>Tallinn: Muti raamat, 2001, 272 lk.
K\u00f5rtsikammija. <\/b>Tallinn: Muti raamat, 2005, 152 lk.
Rahvusvaheline mees. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2009, 207 lk.
Kooparahvas l\u00e4heb ajalukku. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2012, 464 lk.
Eesti \u00fcmberl\u00f5ikaja. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2016, 208 lk.
M\u00e4grad hernes. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2020, 206 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort stories<\/i><\/strong>
Fabiani \u00f5pilane. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980, 152 lk.
Mehed. <\/b>Tallinn: Perioodika (LR), 1981, 56 lk.
Kerge meel. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 127 lk.
Vana Fabiani nutulaul. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 256 lk.
\u00dcleminekuaeg. <\/b>Tallinn: Kupar, 1995, 111 lk.
Elu allikad. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2002, 112 lk.
K\u00f5ik roosid ma kingiksin. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2004, 162 lk.
Siseemigrant. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2007, 189 lk.
Fabian. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2015, 152 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEssays and articles<\/i><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
K\u00f5ik on \u00fcks ja seesama. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1986, 382 lk.
Muti tabloid. <\/b>Tallinn: Kupar, 1999, 240 lk.
\u00d5htumaa Eesti I. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2014, 416 lk.
Meedia, mu meedia. <\/b>Tallinn: Tuum, 1996, 312 lk.
V\u00e4\u00e4rikusest. <\/b>Tallinn: Muti raamat, 2001, 64 lk.
Eestlusest. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2002, 87 lk.
Sise ja v\u00e4li. <\/b>Tallinn: Sirp, 2003, 132 lk.
M\u00f5tted. <\/b>Tallinn: Kultuurileht (LR), 2017, 104 lk.
\u00d5htumaa Eesti II. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2017, 368 lk.
K\u00f5ik on h\u00e4sti. M\u00f5tted II. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2018, 192 lk.
Maailmas peegelduv veetilk. <\/b>Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2020, 336 lk. [Sari \u2018Eesti m\u00f5ttelugu\u2019.]<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTravelogues<\/i><\/strong>
Reisid ehk Kolm korda Aasias, muust r\u00e4\u00e4kimata. <\/b>Tallinn: Kupar, 1990, 236 lk.
Inglismaa p\u00e4evik. <\/b>Tallinn: Kupar, 1995, 88 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tMemories<\/i><\/strong>
M\u00e4lestused 1. osa. Eesti doomino. Eelm\u00e4lestused. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2009, 132 lk.
M\u00e4lestused 2. osa. V\u00f5ru t\u00e4nav. Lapsep\u00f5lv. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2009, 205 lk.
M\u00e4lestused 3. osa. Sitik s\u00fcgab. Kooliaeg. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2010, 207 lk.
M\u00e4lestused 4. osa. Kandilised sambad. \u00dclikool. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2010, 239 lk.
M\u00e4lestused 5. osa. P\u00e4ikesepoolel. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2011, 247 lk.
M\u00e4lestused 6. osa. Elukott. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2011, 223 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tChildren\u2019s literature<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
Franz\u00f6sisch. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981, 64 lk.
N\u00e4\u00e4rivana. <\/b>Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1986, 64 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOther<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
T\u00f6\u00f6 ja armastus. Tammsaaret tuulates. <\/b>Tallinn: Fabian, 2019, 207 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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