{"id":630,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/ligi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:53:55","slug":"ligi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/l\/ligi\/","title":{"rendered":"Katre Ligi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katre Ligi (married name Runnel; born 18 August 1953) is a poet, translator and editor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ligi was born and attended school in Tartu. She studied Estonian philology at Tartu State University. She has worked at a library. Ligi is an editor at Ilmamaa publishing company, which was founded by her husband <\/span><\/span><\/span>Hando Runnel<\/a><\/span><\/span>, a classic of Estonian poetry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katre Ligi\u2019s first attempts at literature date from her school years. From 1964, her creation appeared in Kutsuv Rada<\/em> (\u2018Inviting Path\u2019), the yearbook of Tartu Secondary School No. 2. Her debut collection K\u00f5igest ei k\u00f5nni \u00e4ra<\/em> (\u2018Can\u2019t Walk Away from Everything\u2019, 1978) reflects her life events from youth to family life. Likewise, the following collections also reflect the feelings of a woman and mother in the framework of family life. With years, her poetry becomes more mature, but the author\u2019s attitude remains recognisably idiosyncratic, reaching, for example, in the collection \u00d5nnelik l\u00f5pp<\/em> (\u2018Happy End\u2019, 2012) precise and brief but deep statements which are often based on everyday events.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ligi published her very first poems only over fifty years later in the collection Kaunim Linn<\/em>. 1968-1973 (\u2018The Most Beautiful City. 1968-1973\u2019, 2023). This is a collection from which, according to the bookstore introduction, \u201cthe intervening decades have now taken the strain of biographical matter-of-factness, in the author\u2019s opinion. It reflects the young girl\u2019s initially slightly sad, but gradually more determined world, her transformation from girl to woman, so to speak. The title of the book refers to Tartu and, more generally, to adolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katre Ligi has translated philosophical works by John Ruskin, George Santayana, Arnold Toynbee (A Study of History), Lewis Mumford, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno (Dialektik der Aufkl\u00e4rung<\/em>), Oswald Spengler (Der Untergang des Abendlandes<\/em>) and Georg Hackenschmidt from English or German.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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


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

Poetry collections<\/em><\/strong>
K\u00f5igest ei k\u00f5nni \u00e4ra<\/strong>. Loomingu Raamatukogu 40. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1978, 47 lk
Aeg augustit \u00e4ra saata<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1988, 126 lk
Maastike muutumist<\/strong>: k\u00fcmme aastat varem. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2004, 139 lk
Naabrivalve<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2006, 158 lk
\u00d5nnelik l\u00f5pp<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2012, 143 lk<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Kaunim linn: 1968-1973<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2023, 100 lk.
Meie olemegi ime<\/strong>. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2024. 135 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katre Ligi (married name Runnel; born 18 August 1953) is a poet, translator and editor. Ligi was born and attended school in Tartu. She studied Estonian philology at Tartu State University. She has worked at a library. Ligi is an …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":631,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-630","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630\/revisions\/10595"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}