{"id":420,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/malletalvet\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:06","slug":"malletalvet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/t\/malletalvet\/","title":{"rendered":"Malle Talvet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Malle Talvet (full name Malle Talvet-Mustonen, born 16. XII 1955) is a translator, poet, and diplomat.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTalvet was born in P\u00e4rnu. From 1963 to 1970, she studied at Lydia Koidula 2nd Secondary School in P\u00e4rnu, then at Tallinn Music High School, which she graduated in 1974. In the same year, she enrolled in Tartu State University and graduated it in 1980 with a degree in Romano-Germanic philology. During her studies, she worked as a bibliographer at the library of Tallinn Conservatoire. After graduating university, she taught French language courses in Tallinn and at the Institute of Humanities for ten years. Her first translations originate from this time period as well. From 1990-1991, Talvet worked as an expert at the Estonian Institute and later as its representative in Paris. From 1993-1994, she underwent higher training in diplomacy at the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris. From 1991, Talvet-Mustonen has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. She has held several important diplomatic positions. From 2012-2016, she was the Estonian ambassador in Israel. She is a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 1997. In 2008, she was awarded the Order of the White Star, IV Class. Her brother is the writer, translator, and literary researcher J\u00fcri Talvet.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTalvet\u2019s first writings were poems published in the magazine Noorus in 1979. She has written one poetry collection: N\u00e4htamatult, lakkamatult <\/em>(\u2018Invisibly, Unceasingly\u2019, 1990). Her poetry is emotional and haiku-like. Talvet has written the Latin texts for Rene Eespere\u2019s musical works Sine responsis<\/em> (1987) and Glorificatio<\/em> (1990).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTalvet\u2019s first translations of Virginia Woolf were done in cooperation with Jaak R\u00e4hesoo (\u2018To the Lighthouse\u2019 in 1983 and \u2018Essays\u2019 in 1997). Talvet has translated from English, French and Italian\u00a0 (Gertrude Stein, Carson McCullers, Anita Brookner, Alphonse Daudet, Fran\u00e7ois Mauriac, Marguerite Duras, Vivant Denon, Antonio Tabucchi and many others).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tPoems<\/em><\/strong>
N\u00e4htamatult, lakkamatult<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990. 93 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malle Talvet (full name Malle Talvet-Mustonen, born 16. XII 1955) is a translator, poet, and diplomat. Talvet was born in P\u00e4rnu. From 1963 to 1970, she studied at Lydia Koidula 2nd Secondary School in P\u00e4rnu, then at Tallinn Music High …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/4653"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}