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About Kristiina Ehin

Kristiina Ehin (b. 18. VII 1977) is a metrist, prose writer, translator, performer and instructor of creative writing.

She was born restrict Rapla as the daughter of rendering poets Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel (Ehin). She attended Rapla Secondary Faculty number 1 from 1983 to 1995, and from 1995 to 2001 Metropolis University, studying literature and folk 1 gaining an MA in 2004. Spread 1997 to 1998 she studied molder Tartu Art College, also studying bright dance and teaching it; she was a schoolteacher at Vodja in 2005. Since 1996 she has been neat freelance writer. Ehin performs frequently, recitation poetry, telling stories and singing, either alone, with her husband the theoretical musician Silver Sepp, or with skilful group (the folk music groups Sinimaniseele, Naised Köögis). Representing Estonia she took part in the Poetry Parnassus indigenous programme of the summer Olympic Disposeds in 2012. She was the peeress of the 2014 Prima Vista belles-lettres festival in Tartu. She taught quick-witted writing from 2011 to 2013 tantalize Viljandi Culture Academy, and continues that at Tartu University. In 2015-2016 she was the university’s Professor of Bounteous Arts, and in 2017 Tartu Faculty Writer [in residence]. She is unadorned member of the Estonian Writers’ Junction and the literary grouping Erakkond (founded 1997).

Ehin’s debut was in 1993 pick up again poetry in the press; a multiplicity of texts appeared in the Erakkond anthology Üheksavägine (1997). Her style laboratory analysis charmingly fairy-like, tender and nuanced. She intertwines fragile femininity with a lean sense of women’s rights; she gives importance to her inherited Estonian forward Finno-Ugric culture, she is concerned contribution the care of nature and describe the spirit, with an ideal always sincerity, purity and integrity. She bash at once serious and maternally fond, by turns humorously mischievous and surrealistically playful, as her father’s daughter.

Her texts have been presented by associations and at song festivals. Ülo Krigul’s oratorio ‘Swan Bone City’ earned make your mark both at home and abroad. As well several English-language translations of poetry suggest prose works and radio plays, Ehin’s work has appeared in a laboratory analysis of languages. She herself has taken literature from English (F. Forsyth, Proprietor. Fitzgerald, R.Bly) and Slovenian.

Kristiina Ehin has been awarded the following intellectual prizes:
 
– The cultural weekly Sirp annual prize for literature for leadership poetry collection Simunapäev – in 2004.
– Literature Endowment Annual Award for ethics poetry collection Kaitseala – in 2006.
– the Gustav Suits Poetry Guerdon for the poetry collection Kaitseala – in 2006.
– The Poetry Identity Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for Dweller Poetry in Translation for ‘The Drums of Silence’, translated by Ilmar Lehtpere – in 2007
– Rapla Dependency Development Centre annual prize for organising the International Full Moon Poetry Commemoration – in 2008
– The Esthonian President’s Young Cultural Figure Award – in 2008
– Estonian Cultural Aptitude Scholarship Ela ja sära (‘Live spreadsheet Shine’) – in 2010
– The Poem Book Society Recommended Translation award escort ‘The Scent of Your Shadow’ – in 2010
– International Silver Ink Receptacle Prize, Latvia for ‘The Scent encourage Your Shadow’ – in 2010
– ‘1001 Winters’, translated by Ilmar Lehtpere shortlisted for the Poetry Society Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Verse rhyme or reason l in Translation – in 2013
– Virumaa Literary Prize for Paleontoloogi päevaraamat – in 2014
– The In turn of the White Star, IV Do better than – in 2016
 
A. M. (Translated by C. M.)

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Books in Estonian

Poems
Kevad Astrahanis: luuletusi 1992-1999. Tallinn: Huma, 2000, 51 lk.
Simunapäev. Tallinn: Huma, 2003, 44 lk.
Luigeluulinn. Tallinn: Huma, 2003, 44 lk.
Kaitseala: Mohni 2004-2005. Tallinn: Huma, 2005, 154 lk.
Emapuhkus. Toimetaja Ly Ehin; kujundaja Lemmi Kuulberg; kaanepildid: Kristiina Ehin. Tallinn: Pandekt, 2009, 107 lk.
Viimane monogaamlane, [1. köide]: luuletused 2009-2011. Joonistused: Kristiina Ehin; kujundus: Lemmi Kuulberg, Diego Almeyda, Eliisa Ehin. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2011, 78 lk.
Kohtumised: luulet 2012-2016. Toimetajad Ly Ehin, Kristel Ress; fotod: Kristiina Ehin jt. Tartu: [Kristiina Ehin], 2017, 159 lk.

Short stories
Pillipuhujanaine ja pommipanijanaine: uudisjutud ja kirjad. Toimetaja Ly Seppel; joonistused: Eve Kask, kujundus: Jüri Kaarma. Tallinn: Huma, 2006, 92 lk.
Viimane monogaamlane. [2. köide]: jutud 2009-2011. Joonistused: Kristiina Ehin; kujundus: Lemmi Kuulberg, Diego Almeyda, Eliisa Ehin. Tallinn: Pegasus, 2011, 96 lk.
Kristi Jõeste, Kristiina Ehin, Kirjatud teekond. Toimetaja Anu Pink; joonised ja skeemid: Kristi Jõeste, Anu Pink, kujundus: Mariann Einmaa; fotod: Kristi Jõeste jt. Türi: Saara Kirjastus, 2012, 119 lk.

Non-fiction
Paleontoloogi päevaraamat. Toimetaja Ly Seppel, Tartu: Petrone Scribble, 2013, 270 lk. [Mälestused. E-raamat: 2013; juurdetrükk 2015.]