{"id":731,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/taavikangur\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:15","slug":"taavikangur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/taavikangur\/","title":{"rendered":"Taavi Kangur"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\"Taavi<\/a><\/p>\n

Taavi Kangur (born 19 July 1974) is a\u00a0prose writer.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKangur was born in Kohtla-J\u00e4rve. He graduated from the School of Law at the University of Tartu with a master\u2019s degree in 2019. Kangur has worked in information technology as a project manager and sales director for more than 20 years. He has been a member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKangur entered literature with short stories that were published in the science fiction magazine Algernon<\/em>. He has written several criminal novels. His first novel K\u00f5igile saab kurikaga virutada<\/em> (\u2018Everyone Can Be Slammed with a Bat\u2019) achieved the second place at the novel competition of T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev publishers in 2010. Kangur\u2019s novel H\u00e4kkerijaht<\/em> (\u2018Hunt for Hackers\u2019, 2012) is a fast-paced thriller on the race between Estonian and Russian special services.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe crime novel S\u00fcnk j\u00e4\u00e4, otsatu p\u00f5hi<\/em> (\u2018Gloomy Ice, Boundless Bottom\u2019) received the special prize of the Postimees<\/em> newspaper at the novel competition of the Writers\u2019 Union in 2017. The action of the novel is set in present-day Estonia, but the prosecutor who investigates the murders discovers that the key to the events lies in his own earlier service in the Soviet Army.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2014, Taavi Kangur published the manual Kuidas saada kirjanikuks<\/em> (\u2018How to Become a Writer\u2019).<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/em><\/strong>
K\u00f5igile saab kurikaga virutada<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2010, 264 lk. [E-raamat: 2011.]
Nii siis j\u00e4\u00e4bki<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2011, 206 lk. [E-raamat: 2011.]
H\u00e4kkerijaht<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2012, 303 lk. [E-raamat: 2012.]
S\u00fcnk j\u00e4\u00e4, otsatu p\u00f5hi. I osa<\/strong>. Tallinn: Post Factum, 2017, 415 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Kuidas saada kirjanikuks?<\/strong>. Tartu: Fantaasia, 2014, 108 lk. [K\u00e4siraamat. E-raamat: 2014.]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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