{"id":933,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kunnas\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:08:41","slug":"kunnas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kunnas\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Kunnas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNovels<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>\"Leo<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout Leo Kunnas<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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Leo Kunnas (born 14. XI 1967) is a writer, publicist, reservist, and politician, who has become well-known for his cosmic scale science fiction novels.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKunnas was born in Orava parish, P\u00f5lva county. He graduated from Vastseliina primary school. At 16, he tried to escape the Soviet Union, was caught, and sent to a juvenile penal colony. He received his secondary school education in Russia. After his internment, he joined the Soviet army. From 1989-1991, he studied at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, then history and philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He received his military education in the National Defence University of Finland from 1991-1994. He chose a career in military and by 2003, had become lieutenant colonel. From 2001-2007, he was Deputy Commander, Acting Commander and Commander of the Operations Department of the General Staff of the Defence Forces of the Republic of Estonia. In 2007, he left military service. Afterwards, he has been active in politics and is a member of the XIV convocation of Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia). As an opinion leader, he actively comments on the defense forces, politics, and society in media. He has been awarded several military honors and literary awards, including the Betti Alver Debut Prize and has been awarded the Estonian science fiction award Stalker several times. He is a member of Estonian Writers\u2019 Union since 2009.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKunnas debuted in Looming<\/em> magazine with the autobiographical short story Kustumatu valguse maailm <\/i>(\u2018The World of Undying Light\u2019, 1990), which takes place in a violent youth colony. The novel S\u00f5durjumala teener <\/i>(\u2018Servant to the Soldier God\u2019, 2001) reflects Estonian boys\u2019 resistance to the Soviet military service as a brutal system. It also paints a picture of the systematic shaping of soldier philosophy, which is formed by unwavering will, purposefulness and deliberateness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lengthy science fiction trilogy Gort Ashryn <\/i>(I \u2013 2008, II \u2013 2009, III \u2013 2010) takes place about a thousand years in the future and focuses on political and military action on the planet Gort Ashryn, where humankind has, after a long pause, again resorted to war, and the lines between human and artificial intelligence are somewhat blurred. The main character is captain Anton Irv the VIII, the eighth clone of the Estonian War of Independence hero, who, while acting in the imaginary future also travels back in time, tries to overturn the course of an increasingly desperate future war and restore peace in the cosmic civilization populated by humans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSecurity themed speculations are offered in his voluminous pseudo-documentary novel S\u00f5da 2023<\/i> (\u2018War 2023\u2019, 2016), where he uses two different state defense scenarios \u2013 Taavet<\/i> and Koljat<\/i> \u2013 to describe war with Russia. With the imagination of a sci-fi author, he creates two versions of the outbreak of war, in which the professionally accurate detail-rich descriptions have a ruthlessly realistic effect. Kunnas is the screenwriter of the movie 1944<\/i> (2015, directed by Elmo N\u00fcganen) and also compiled the book 1944: filmiraamat<\/i> (\u20181944: Film Book\u2019, 2015), which describes the creation and historic background of the movie.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary military book Viiv pikas s\u00f5jas<\/i> (\u2018A Moment in a Long War\u2019, 2006) offers thorough insight into the everyday life of Estonian soldiers in Iraq, reflecting the author\u2019s own experience with a foreign military operation from 2005. The collection of articles Takerdunud r\u00fcnnak<\/i> (\u2018A Tangled Attack\u2019, 2008) introduces the key problems of Estonian state defense to the reader and offers solutions. He continues weighing topical domestic and foreign policy topics in the article collection Ukraina h\u00e4irekell. Takerdunud r\u00fcnnak II<\/i> (\u2018The Ukrainian Alarm Bell. A Tangled Attack II\u2019, 2014).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/em>
Kustumatu valguse maailm. S\u00f5durjumala teener<\/b>. Tallinn: Tuum, 2001, 332 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: Tallinn: Tuum, 2006, 333 lk.]
Gort Ashryn I. Enne viimast s\u00f5da<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2008, 420 lk.
Gort Ashryn II. S\u00f5da<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2009, 530 lk.
Gort Ashryn III. Rahu<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2010, 472 lk.
S\u00f5da 2023. Taavet \/ Koljat<\/b>. Tallinn: K\u00fcppar & Ko, 2016, 512 lk.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEssays and articles<\/em>
Viiv pikas s\u00f5jas. M\u00e4rkmed Iraagi s\u00f5jast<\/b>. Tallinn: T\u00e4nap\u00e4ev, 2006, 239 lk.
Takerdunud r\u00fcnnak<\/b>. Tallinn: Eesti P\u00e4evaleht, 2008, 179 lk.
Ukraina h\u00e4irekell. Takerdunud r\u00fcnnak II<\/b>. Tallinn: Hea Lugu, 2014, 262 lk.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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