{"id":486,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/mihkelson\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:57","slug":"mihkelson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/m\/mihkelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ene Mihkelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Ene_Mihkelson_Foto_Meelis_Lokk\"<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

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

\n\tAbout Ene Mihkelson<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Ene Mihkelson (1944-2017) was an Estonian poet, prose writer and literary critic. Mihkelson\u2019s literary aesthetics is considered one of the most original in Estonian literature. Her works focus on the individual\u2019s complicated perception of reality, mostly in connection with painful events from personal life and the past of the Estonian people. <\/span><\/span>
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Ene Mihkelson was born in Imavere parish in Viljandi county, but went to school in and around Rakvere. In 1963 she graduated from Tartu University with a degree in philology and went on to work primarily as a researcher in the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu. Mihkelson\u2019s poems started to appear in the press from 1967 onwards, her literary criticism and research from 1971. Her first piece of prose (the short story Gregor<\/em>) was published in the literary journal Looming in 1980. In 1976 Mihkelson was awarded the Looming annual prize for her poems and reviews. After the publication of her first two poetry collections, she became a professional writer and member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union in 1979; after that, she gradually stopped publishing literary criticism and research papers. Mihkelson has twice won the Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize: in 1994 for the cycle of poems Eesti elu<\/em> (\u2018Estonian Life\u2019) and in 1999 for the poem \u201cJa ikka veel see tunne\u2026\u201d<\/em> (\u2018\u201dAnd still that feeling\u2026\u201d\u2018). Mihkelson\u2019s literary research deals mostly with the works of Friedebert Tuglas. In 2001 she was awarded the Cultural Endowment\u00a0Annual Award for Literature and in 2007 the\u00a0Literature Endowment Annual Award for the novel Katkuhaud<\/em> (\u2018Plague Grave\u2019). <\/span>
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Even in her first collections of poetry \u2013 Selle talve laused<\/em> (\u2018Sentences of this Winter\u2019), Ring ja nelinurk<\/em> (\u2018Circle and Square\u2019), Algolekud<\/em> (\u2018Primal States\u2019), Tuhased tiivad<\/em> (\u2018Wings in Ashes\u2019) \u2013 Mihkelson\u2019s pervasive themes already stand out: the search for the past, for self-expression, and for identity. In later collections \u2013 Tulek on su saatus<\/em> (\u2018Coming is Your Destiny\u2019), Elujoonis<\/em> (\u2018Pattern of Life\u2019), V\u00f5imalus \u00f5unast loobuda<\/em> (\u2018Chance to Refuse the Apple\u2019) \u2013 social subject matter is dealt with in greater depth: haunting personal memories are clearly linked to the shared past of the Estonian people. Intertextual dependence on classical texts increases. Hitherto free verse starts to acquire a personal rhythm and rhyme pattern. Later collections \u2013 Pidevus neelab \u00fcht nuga<\/em> (\u2018Continuity is Swallowing a Knife\u2019), Torn<\/em> (\u2018Tower\u2019) \u2013 also reveal a certain social irony. \u00a0<\/span>
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The publication of Mihkelson\u2019s prose works gave critics clearer guidelines on to how better to tackle her poetry. Characters in her novels provide a basis on which to analyse how painful and confused events from the past (from 1940s\u20131950s) influence the present and how they have fractured people\u2019s sense of belonging and identity. In the modernist aesthetics of the novel, the line between external events and introspection gets blurred, dreams are bound up with reality. Events pass into contemplation about whether and how it is even possible to achieve certainty in acknowledging the past, oneself and one\u2019s experience, and how it is possible to express it all in language. <\/span>
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Matsi p\u00f5hi<\/em> (\u2018Roots of a Rustic\u2019, 1983) and the accompanying Kuju keset v\u00e4ljakut<\/em> (\u2018Statue in the Middle of the Square\u2019) stood out from the literature of the mundane of the period on account of their depth and innovation. The novel Korter<\/em> (\u2018The Flat\u2019, 1985) observes three characters living in a communal flat, offering a treatment of their fractured identities as a collective portrait of the Estonian state of mind. The novel Nime vaev<\/em> (\u2018The Torment of a Name\u2019, 1994) dissects the meaning of the contemporary transition years against the backdrop of the past. Ahasveeruse uni<\/em> (\u2018The Sleep of Ahasuerus\u2019, 2001) and Katkuhaud<\/em> (\u2018Plague Grave\u2019, 2007) tell relatively similar stories about how a first-person character explores his father\u2019s guerrilla past. The past shrouded in shadowy confusion encounters in \u2018The Sleep of Ahasuerus\u2019 a contemporary attitude that is hostile, bureaucratic and superficial, and truth revealed is once again covered up. At the same time, the first person character painstakingly unravels the layers of his own world of feelings and thoughts. \u2018Plague Grave\u2019, in which the way Estonians think about the past is revealed in the title metaphor, tells the story with slightly simpler and more poetic means than her previous works.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I. S. (Translated by M. M.-K.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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

\n\tPoems<\/em><\/strong>
Selle talve laused<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1978, 99 lk.
Ring ja nelinurk<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1979, 104 lk.
Algolekud<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1980, 99 lk.
Tuhased tiivad<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1982, 79 lk.
Igiliikuja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985, 151 lk.
Tulek on su saatus<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 94 lk.
Elujoonis<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1989, 133 lk.
V\u00f5imalus \u00f5unast loobuda<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 126 lk.
H\u00fc\u00fcdja h\u00e4\u00e4l. Luuletusi 1988\u20131991<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1993, 212 lk.
Pidevus neelab \u00fcht nuga<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 1997, 157 lk.
Kaalud ei k\u00f5nele. Valitud luuletusi 1967\u20131997<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2000, 299 lk.
Uroboros<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2004, 96 lk.
Torn<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2010, 102 lk.
K\u00f5ik redelid on tagurpidi. Valik luuletusi 1976\u20132010<\/strong>. Koostanud ja j\u00e4rels\u00f5na: Hasso Krull. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2016, 351 lk.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
Matsi p\u00f5hi<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1983, 200 lk. [Sisaldab ka l\u00fchiromaani \u2019Kuju keset v\u00e4ljakut\u2019. 2. tr\u00fckk: \u2019Matsi p\u00f5hi; Kuju keset v\u00e4ljakut; Korter\u2019, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014, 492 lk.]
Korter<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985, 191 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: \u2019Matsi p\u00f5hi; Kuju keset v\u00e4ljakut; Korter\u2019, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014, 492 lk.]
Nime vaev<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1994, 222 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2014, 276 lk.]
Ahasveeruse uni<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2001, 483 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tallinn: EKSA, 2017, 487 lk.]
Katkuhaud<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2007, 319 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2009, 303 lk; e-raamat: Tallinn: Varrak, Digira, 2011.]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort stories<\/em><\/strong>
Surma s\u00fcnnip\u00e4ev. Novelle ja laaste<\/strong>. Tallinn: Tuum, 1996, 134 lk.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Kirjanduse seletusi. Artiklid ja retsensioonid 1973\u20131983<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1986, 204 lk.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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