{"id":714,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/veerasaar\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:16","slug":"veerasaar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/s\/veerasaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Veera Saar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShort stories <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\"Veera<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

Veera Saar (born Veera-Alise D\u00f6ring, 28. III 1912 \u2013 20. VII 2004) was a prose-writer and teacher.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was born near Yamburg in Russia, whither her parents had emigrated from Kadrina parish near Tapa. The family returned to Estonia when the future writer was seven. In 1931 she graduated from J\u00f5hvi Gymnasium, and in 1937 from the faculty of philosophy at the University of Tartu. In 1940 she defended her master\u2019s thesis on the subject of folklore, Luust s\u00f5rmus<\/em> (\u2018The Bone Ring\u2019). Academically she was a member of Lembela student sorority from 1935. From 1937 to 1958 she worked as a teacher of Estonian language and literature, in Tartu, Kehtna and J\u00e4neda. From 1958 she lived at Aruk\u00fcla (near Tallinn), where she wrote most of her books. L\u00f5okesed taeva all<\/em> (\u2018Larks Under the Sky\u2019), written while working as a teacher, brought the author second prize in a novel competition, the highest one to be awarded that year. This was a turning point in Veera Saar\u2019s life. It was 1958 when the 46-year-old woman, threw in her lot with literature and gave up her teaching post where she was loved and appreciated.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVeera Saar\u2019s realistic novels and short prose constitute a pithy and, especially with hindsight, in many respects characteristic chapter in the literature of Estonia in the second half of the twentieth century. Her works are a summary of complex times \u2013 emigrations and returns, deportations and wars, tenacious toil for the sake of one\u2019s children\u2019s future, regardless of the state system.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the basis of Saar\u2019s novel Ukuaru<\/em> (1969), a film of the same name was made (1973, directed by Leida Laius), one of the classics of Estonian cinema. The strong female characters in both the novel and the film have been presented as Estonian archetypes.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tL. P. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
L\u00f5okesed taeva all<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1960, 222 lk.
\u00dcle allikate<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1963, 267 lk.
Ukuaru<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1969, 342 lk.
Aprillip\u00e4ev<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1981, 189 lk.
Kraakuvi m\u00e4gi<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1987, 271 lk.
Maa hind<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990, 270 lk.
Kodutee<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1996, 206 lk.
K\u00e4ritsa leib<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1999, 180 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tStories<\/em><\/strong>
S\u00f5it mustikametsa<\/strong>. Jutustus. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1952, 40 lk.
P\u00f5latud maa<\/strong>. Jutustusi. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1965, 156 lk.
Elas kord mees<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1975, 176 lk.
Isa niinepuu<\/strong>. Jutustusi, novelle, laaste. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1977, 128 lk.
Ira<\/strong>. Tallinn: Perioodika, 1983, 70 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Memoirs<\/em><\/strong>
Neid ammuseid aegu<\/strong>. Kirja pandud 1998.\u20131999. aastal. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 2000, 196 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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