{"id":83,"date":"2024-04-03T23:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/avetaavet\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:36:06","slug":"avetaavet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/t\/avetaavet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ave Taavet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ave Taavet (born 16 October 1988) is a prose writer, cartoonist, filmmaker and critic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taavet attended Tartu Tamme Gymnasium and Tartu Children\u2019s Art School. In 2007, she completed Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu. In 2011, Ave Taavet graduated from the University of Tartu in the speciality of history. In 2015, she acquired a master\u2019s degree from the Department of Animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.<\/span><\/span><\/span> Taavet has published cartoons in Estonian media, including in the journal Vikerkaar, and illustrated other writers\u2019 books. She has also made animated and documentary films that have been successful at international festivals, and music videos for Estonian artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taavet\u2019s first book, the short story collection Valerahategija<\/em> (\u2018Counterfeiter\u2019) appeared in 2020. Her stories a characterised by mixing the mundane and the supernatural and humour.<\/span><\/span><\/span> Taavet\u2019s second book, Karikaturisti eine<\/em> (\u2018Cartoonist\u2019s Meal\u2019, 2021), contains the best of his cartoons, as well as seven short stories inspired by the cartoons. Her third book, the story collection Kasukas<\/em> (\u2018Fur Coat\u2019, 2024), contains, in addition to humorous social criticism, also elements and characters from Estonian folklore. The short story Tormides\u00f6\u00f6ja<\/em> (\u2018Storm Eater\u2019) from the collection received the August Gailit Short Story Prize. Taavet was also selected as one of the recipients of the writer\u2019s salary in 2025-2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taavet is also prolific literary critic. She has contributed to the periodicals M\u00fc\u00fcrileht<\/em>, Sirp<\/em>, Looming<\/em>, Vikerkaar<\/em>, KesKus<\/em> and V\u00e4rske R\u00f5hk<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>
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Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short prose<\/em><\/strong>
Valerahategija<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kultuurileht, 2020. 133 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Karikaturisti eine.<\/strong> Tallinn: SA Kultuurileht, 2022, 147 lk.
Kasukas.<\/strong> Tallinn: Kirjastus Pu\u00e4nt, 2024, 191 lk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ave Taavet (born 16 October 1988) is a prose writer, cartoonist, filmmaker and critic. Taavet attended Tartu Tamme Gymnasium and Tartu Children\u2019s Art School. In 2007, she completed Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu. In 2011, Ave Taavet graduated from the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/8668"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}