{"id":476,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/katrinjakobi\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:59","slug":"katrinjakobi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/j\/katrinjakobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrin Jakobi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About Katrin Jakobi<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tKatrin Jakobi (real name Livia Oras, n\u00e9e Livia L\u00fc\u00fcs, 20 June 1909 \u2013 26 January 1986) was a prose writer who lived in exile.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was born in V\u00f5ru as the daughter of a physician and attended the primary school of Tallinn Girls\u2019 Commercial Gymnasium from 1917\u20131922 and the Girls\u2019 Gymnasium of the Estonian Youth Education Society in Tartu. Later, she studied Estonian literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tartu and ceramics, sculpture, goldsmithing and enamel work at several places in Estonia, Finland and the US. In 1943, she left Estonia for Finland, in 1944, Finland for Sweden and worked from 1945\u20131946 as an archivist at a library in Sweden. From 1946\u20131949, she and her husband, literary scholar and translator Ants Oras lived in Oxford, UK. From 1949 to her death, she lived in Gainesville, Florida, US.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom 1935\u20131940, she was active in in Estonia as a translator. She translated some novels and popular scientific books. She made her debut in literature with a short story published under the name of Katrin Jakobi in the journal Tulimuld<\/em> in 1965. Her collection of short stories Suvekodumaa<\/em> (\u2018Summer Homeland\u2019, Lund, 1975) received the Henrik Visnapuu Literature Prize. The book contains 13 short stories in which depict different people and move in different speciality areas with intense compassion and expertise. The author uses a smoothly personal style with good story-telling skills and attempts to penetrate the psychological depths of emigre Estonians of the 1950s\u20131960s. Several stories in the collection have a masterful resolution. Critics noted appreciatively that Jakobi followed the short story traditions inherited from Karl August Hindrey. The book depicts the struggle of Estonians who had adjusted to exile on the social and ideological battlegrounds of that time\u2019s world. When the homeland of memories was closed for refugees or destroyed, they found mental support in Finland as it resembled the homeland environment.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother book written by Katrin Jakobi is the children\u2019s book Kolm juttu neljast kassist<\/em> (\u2018Three Stories about Four Cats\u2019). The fairy tales about cats were originally not written for publication but for two little Estonian girls in America, one of whom was the author\u2019s goddaughter. As other children to whom the stories were read also liked them, the author could be persuaded to have the cat stories published in print. The book also contains four poems.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tShort stories<\/strong><\/em>
Suvekodumaa<\/strong>. Lund: Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv, 1975. 223 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tChildren\u2019s stories<\/em><\/strong>
Kolm juttu neljast kassist<\/strong>. Tallinn: 1991. 30 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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