{"id":641,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/riives\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:31","slug":"riives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/r\/riives\/","title":{"rendered":"Merike Riives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/merike_riives_kalju_suur.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Merike Riives\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/merike_riives_kalju_suur.jpg\" style=\"float: right;width: 200px;height: 260px\" title=\"Photo: Kalju Suur\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Merike Riives (until 1969, Merike Roop, born 31. X 1945) is a translator and editor.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Riives was born in Tallinn and graduated the 4th Secondary School in Tallinn in 1964. In 1969, she graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in Romanic philology. She has worked at a library and taught French in several schools in Tallinn. In 1984, she became a freelancer. She is a member of the Writers\u2019 Union since 1994.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Riives\u2019 first translations were published in the 1973 anthology <em>Prantsuse novel<\/em>l (\u2018The French Short Story\u2019). She has mainly translated the works of XX century French writers (Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, Georges Simenon, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Yourcenar and many others) but also of other French classics, for example Voltaire. Riives has written forewords and afterwords for her translated novels and published articles on French literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">In addition to French, she is also interested in the Proven\u00e7al language. She has compiled a Proven\u00e7al language poetry anthology <em>Provence\u2019i bukett<\/em> (\u2018The Proven\u00e7al Bouquet\u2019, 2013) and translated and compiled the selected works <em>Kirjad k\u00fcnkal<\/em> (\u2018Letters on a Hill\u2019) of Andri\u00e9u Resplandin\u2019s Proven\u00e7al language poetry (2021).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">In 1995, Riives compiled the poetry collection <em>Testament<\/em> with poems by Enn Uibo.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><em>L. P. (Translated by A. A.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merike Riives (until 1969, Merike Roop, born 31. X 1945) is a translator and editor. Riives was born in Tallinn and graduated the 4th Secondary School in Tallinn in 1964. In 1969, she graduated from Tartu State University with a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":686,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-641","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/641\/revisions\/4446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}