Martin Algus (born 25 December 1973) is a playwright, prose writer, screenwriter, dramaturge, translator and actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was born and attended school in J\u00f5geva and studied acting at Viljandi Cultural College. He has been an actor and playwright at the Ugala Theatre, a copywriter, later a freelancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beginning of Algus\u2019 literary creative path features original plays and translations of plays for which he was awarded the Aleksander Kurtna Translator\u2019s Award by the Dramatic Art Endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2005. From among the translated plays, Terrorism<\/em> by Vladimir and Oleg Presnyakov, The Yalta Game<\/em> by Brian Friel and Mensch Meier<\/em> by Franz Xaver Kroetz staged in 2004. His original plays have also received awards; for example, Janu<\/em> (2007) won the first place in the Estonian Theatre Agency\u2019s playwriting competition and the prize of the Drama Festival (2009). The youth play Ise oled!<\/em> (\u2018You Are!\u2019, 2007) won the second place. Postmodernsed leibkonnad<\/em> (\u2018Postmodern Households\u2019), which views different family models in the present-day world, won the first place in the same playwriting competition in 2009. V\u00e4\u00e4velmagnooliad<\/em> (\u2018Sulphur Magnolias\u2019, 2013), which deals with childhood traumas and the increasingly relevant theme of care for aging family members, received the second place and also the Estonian Theatre Union\u2019s original dramaturgy award in 2015. Kontakt<\/em> (\u2018Contact\u2019, published as a book in 2012) views the encounters of lonely people with different life paths and destinies in the capitals of the Nordic countries. It won the first place in the New Baltic Drama playwriting competition in 2011 and the Literature Endowment Annual Award in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The themes of Algus\u2019 early plays and prose works are mostly in the present-day world; he is interested in social problems. His first novel Midagi t\u00f5elist<\/em> (\u2018Something Real\u2019, 2018), which received the Literature Endowment Annual Award for prose (2019) and the Eduard Vilde<\/a> Prize in Literature (2019), entwines the lives of two men, a porn addict and someone who has just been released from prison, amid the temptations and pitfalls of the internet, the loneliness and greed of the modern world. On the other hand, the short prose collection Tagamaa<\/em> (\u2018Hinterland\u2019, 2020) highlights the people and scenery of Estonia\u2019s periphery in a hundred-year perspective from Estonia gaining independent statehood to the present. The radio play L\u00f5vi<\/em> (\u2018Lion\u2019), based on the short story Gandhi<\/em>, won the Best European Drama and the BBC Audio Drama Award (2022). The cinematic story in which a screenwriter\u2019s hand can be felt is about a lion who breaks loose and about people\u2019s reactions to this situation. \u201cL\u00f5vi\u201d is set in Estonia after the restoration of independence in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To larger audiences, Algus is primarily known as a scriptwriter of films and TV series. He made his debut in this field in 2008 with the feature film Soovide puu<\/em> (\u2018The Wish Tree\u2019, director Liina Paakspuu), which was followed by a number of feature films, such as Sangarid<\/em> (\u2018The Dissidents\u2019, 2017, director Jaak Kilmi), Talve<\/em> (\u2018Winter\u2019, 2019) and Soo<\/em> (\u2018The Bog\u2019, 2021, both based on the works of Oskar Luts<\/a> and directed by Ergo Kuld) and Elu ja armastus<\/em> (\u2018Life and Love\u2019, 2024, directed by Helen Takkin) based on the novel by A. H. Tammsaare<\/a>. Algus has written the scripts for the TV series \u00dchikarotid<\/em> (\u2018Dormitory Rats\u2019, 2010), Kalevipojad<\/em> (2011), which depicts the life of Estonian builders in Finland, Lahutus Eesti moodi<\/em> (\u2018Divorce Estonian Style\u2019, 2019), which was awarded the title of best TV series at the Estonian Film and TV Awards in 2020, Miks mitte?<\/em> (\u2018Why Not?\u2019), which won the title of the best television screenwriter in 2019, and Valguses ja varjus<\/em> (\u2018In Light and Shadow\u2019, 2020). The director of all the mentioned series is Ergo Kuld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Algus\u2019 first poetry collection Paranemine<\/em> (\u2018Healing\u2019 2021) is focussed on a family story and coping with the grief caused by the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Algus has received the Oskar Luts Humour Prize (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n A. K. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Novels<\/em><\/strong> Short prose<\/strong><\/em> Poetry<\/em><\/strong> Plays<\/em><\/strong> Martin Algus (born 25 December 1973) is a playwright, prose writer, screenwriter, dramaturge, translator and actor. He was born and attended school in J\u00f5geva and studied acting at Viljandi Cultural College. 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Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Midagi t\u00f5elist<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2018, 177 lk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tagamaa<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2020, 196 lk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paranemine<\/strong>. Tallinn: Pu\u00e4nt, 2021, 92 lk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00d5itseng<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Draamateater, 2011, 84 lk
Kontakt<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Draamateater, 2012, 96 lk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"