Table of Contents

Preface by Rutt Hinrikus

Introduction by Tiina Kirss and Jüri Kivimäe

Hilja Lill (1905)
Tuuli Jaik (1910)
Elmar- Raimund Ruben ( 1918)
David Abramson (1923)
Evald Mätas (1921)
Heljut Kapral (1923)
Hans Karro (1923)
Hillar Tassa (1923)
Leida Madison (1925)
Valter Lehtla (1924)
Linda Põldes (1928)
Tanni Kents (1920)
Hans Lebert (1924)
Voodel Võrk (1925)
Peep Vunder (1936)
Selma Tasane (1926)
Asta Luksepp (1932)
Heljo Liitoja (1923)
Juta Pihlamägi (1927)
Volita Paklar (1937)
Raimo Loo (1929)
Aili Valdrand (1936)
Valdur Raudvassar (1939)
Ene Ergma (1944)
Tiia Allas (1973)

Glossary
Chronology

About the Author

Rutt Hinrikus, head of the Estonian Life Histories Association. Her main research fields are 20th century Estonian literature, Estonian life stories, and Estonian literature in exile.


Tiina Kirss is professor of Estonian literature at the University of Tartu. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan (1994). Her primary research interests are 20th century comparative European literary history, autobiography and life histories, oral history, Siberian deportations in the Baltics, trauma theory, feminist theory etc.