{"id":859,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/uibo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:08:52","slug":"uibo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/u\/uibo\/","title":{"rendered":"Udo Uibo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/udo_uibo_kalju_suur.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Udo Uibo\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/udo_uibo_kalju_suur.jpg\" style=\"float: right;width: 300px;height: 220px\" title=\"Photo: Kalju Suur\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">Udo Uibo (born 5 May 1956) is a literary critic, linguist, editor and translator.<\/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\">Uibo was born in Viljandi, attended Viljandi 8-year School No. 3 and, from 1971\u20131974, Viljandi Secondary School No. 1. He continued his studies at Tartu State University, from which he graduated in 1979 specialising in Estonian philology. Thereafter, he worked for two years in Tallinn as a researcher at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. From 1981\u20131990, he was the language editor of the journal <em>Keel ja Kirjandus<\/em>. From 1997\u20132005, Udo Uibo was editor-in-chief of the journal <em>Looming<\/em>. Later, he has been a freelance literator in Tallinn. Member of the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union from 1989.<\/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\">Uibo made his debut with poems in the magazine <em>Noorus<\/em> in 1974 under the pseudonym of Kalju Nii. He has published poems under this pseudonym and his real name in periodicals and collections.<\/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 the 1980s, Uibo became an active linguist and critic of literature and culture. He has made numerous translations of prose and poetry, mostly from English. Uibo has rendered classics of English poetry (Byron, Eliot, Blake) and other European poetry classics into Estonian. He has translated books by well-known prose authors writing in English, like Anthony Burgess, Truman Capote, Arthur Koestler, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Steinbeck, Graham Swift and Evelyn Waugh.<\/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 2014, Udo Uibo published <em>S\u00f5nalood<\/em> (\u2018Word Stories\u2019), a collection of etymological studies in popular form. The book received the Literature Endowment Annual Award. Earlier, Uibo had received the same award twice for literary translation. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of the White Star, class V.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:13px\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\">L. P. (Translated by I. A.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif\"><strong>Books in Estonian<\/strong><\/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\"><strong>S\u00f5nalood: et\u00fcmoloogilisi vesteid<\/strong>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2014. 215 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"notranslate\">\n\t\u00a0\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Udo Uibo (born 5 May 1956) is a literary critic, linguist, editor and translator. 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