{"id":687,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/aleksejev\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:23","slug":"aleksejev","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/a\/aleksejev\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiit Aleksejev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Novels<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\"Tiit<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

About Tiit Aleksejev<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Tiit Aleksejev is a novelist and a playwright. Born in Kohtla-J\u00e4rve in 1968, he studied history at the University of Tartu, eventually concluding his studies in 1992 with a master\u2019s degree in medieval history, specifically the Crusades. In addition to his literary career, he has served as a diplomat in both France and Brussels. He is also an alumnus of the student corporation Sakala. Currently, he lives in Tallinn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleksejev debuted with the short story \u201cTartu Rahu\u201d (\u2018The Peace of Tartu\u2019) in the Estonian literary journal Looming<\/em> in 1999 and won the magazine\u2019s annual award. From there he went on to publish his thriller novel Valge kuningriik <\/em>(\u2018The White Kingdom\u2019) <\/em>in 2006, which won the Betti Alver Prize for best debut novel. The setting of Valge kuningriik <\/em>spans time and place in both Paris and Afghanistan and contains facets mirroring Aleksejev\u2019s own personal experiences, such as the protagonist\u2019s job of working in an Estonian embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n

He published his second novel Palver\u00e4nd <\/em>(\u2018The Pilgrimage\u2019) in 2008, a piece of historical fiction set during the First Crusade in the 11th<\/sup> century. To write Palver\u00e4nd<\/em>, Aleksejev spent a decade researching information and visiting key battle sites in the Holy Land. In 2010, the novel was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleksejev\u2019s next work was the play Leegion\u00e4rid <\/em>(\u2018Legionaries\u2019), based on the historical Battle of Blue Hills in Estonia during the Second World War and the Estonian Legion. The novel focused on the fate of the fallen Estonians who fought on opposing sides of the stalled Red Army and the retreating Germans. Leegion\u00e4rid <\/em>won the Virumaa Literary Award in 2011 and was performed in the town of Rakvere in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2011, he published Kindel Linn <\/em>(\u2018Stronghold\u2019), which, combined with Palver\u00e4nd<\/em>, <\/em>is the second novel in a proclaimed trilogy. His most recent work, the play Kuningad <\/em>(\u2018Kings\u2019) was published in 2014. Again Aleksejev pulled from history, centering the story around the murder of the four Estonian kings during the St. George\u2019s Night Uprising of 1343.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleksejev\u2019s work has been translated into multiple languages, including Bulgarian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, and Latvian.<\/span><\/p>\n

M.M.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Novels<\/em>
<\/strong><\/span>Valge kuningriik<\/strong><\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2006, 197 pp.<\/span>
Palver\u00e4nd: lugu Esimesest ristis\u00f5jast<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2008, 308 pp. [2nd ed:\u00a0<\/span>2012.]
<\/span>Kindel linn: lugu Esimesest ristis\u00f5jast<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2011, 205 pp.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Plays
<\/em><\/strong>Leegion\u00e4rid<\/strong><\/strong>. Tallinn: Kultuurileht, 2010, 53 pp.
<\/span>Kuningad: n\u00e4idend aastast 1343<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kultuurileht, 2014, 73 pp.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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