Mario Kivistik (born 15 June 1955) is a poet, publisher and translator of science fiction and fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kivistik completed Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 and studied English and German at Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. He has worked as an English teacher for three years, in the Road Traffic Inspectorate of the Estonian SSR for six years, and later in the editorial office of the children\u2019s magazine P\u00f5hjanael<\/em> (formerly called Pioneer<\/em>). In 1983\u20131984, he was the chairman of the Tallinn Young Authors\u2019 Association. For several decades, Kivistik worked as a department head at the Estonian Authors\u2019 Society. From 1989\u20131991, he was the chairman of the Estonian Green Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mario Kivistik published three poetry collections at the end of the Soviet period. The musings and love themes included in them display an image of a young person searching for his direction and trying to grasp the unknown sides of human relationships and human nature. Mario Kivistik\u2019s poems have been translated into Russian and Belarusian. Kivistik has also published poetry collections for children. In the 1980s, his puppet shows concerning traffic problems, T\u00e4navatund<\/em> (\u2018Street Lesson\u2019) and Vusserdused kooliteel<\/em> (\u2018Mishaps on the Way to School\u2019) were staged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mario Kivistik\u2019s work as a translator and editor has contributed to the emergence and development of the Estonian fantasy and science fiction community. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the editor of the magazines Pioneer<\/em> and P\u00f5hjanael<\/em>, he published science fiction stories translated by himself and others as well as Estonian authors\u2019 own creations. Kivistik was also a pioneer in the promotion of local art of comic strips by commissioning comics for Pioneer<\/em> from Estonian authors. Kivistik was the founder and editor of the horror and fantasy magazine Mardus<\/em>, published between 1991 and 2001. In addition, he compiled and edited several influential science fiction anthologies between 1993 and 2004. Thanks to Kivistik, several later well-known writers like Veiko Belials<\/a>, Marek Simpson, Lew R. Berg and others started their careers as science fiction writers. Kivistik has translated numerous science fiction books from English, including the works of H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Dan Simmons, George R. R. Martin and M. John Harrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kivistik has won several Stalkers \u2014 Estonian science fiction awards \u2014 for his translations and the same award in 2015 for his contribution to promoting Estonian science fiction culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Poetry<\/em><\/strong> Children\u2019s books<\/em><\/strong> Mario Kivistik (born 15 June 1955) is a poet, publisher and translator of science fiction and fantasy. Kivistik completed Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 and studied English and German at Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. He has worked as an English teacher …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5664","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=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5664\/revisions\/5666"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
L\u00e4bil\u00f5ige<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981. 45 lk.
Terra incognita<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1985. 55 lk.
Silmapiiririkkuja<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990. 129 lk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fooriku vembud<\/strong> [piltlugu v\u00e4rssides]. Tallinn : Valgus, 1984. 19 lk.
Remoste planeet<\/strong> [piltlugu v\u00e4rssides]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1984. 35 lk.
\u00dcle linnat\u00e4nava<\/strong> [luuletused v\u00e4ikelastele]. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987. 15 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"