Doris Kareva
Author

Poems

***[Kui ma ei kõnele sellest] estonian

Translations: es fr ro sv de

***[Kõikide eest] estonian

Translations: en es fi no

***[Kui kirjutan] estonian

Translations: en es sv

***[Kaotaja kiituseks laulan] estonian

Translations: en es fi

***[Seda mantrat korda] estonian

Translations: en es de

***[Ja ma armastan Sind, sest] estonian

Translations: cy en fi fr is nl uk de

***[Kõikidest valudest] estonian

Translations: de en fr ga nl

***[See, mis on] estonian

Translations: de en fi fr sv uk

***[Maja mere ääres] estonian

Translations: en fi fr ro sv uk

***[Leekiv, liikumatu päike] estonian

Translations: de en fi he sv uk

***[Skalpell ja metronoom] estonian

Translations: ca en fi fr it sk sv

***[Karm, napp on põhjamaa valgus] estonian

Translations: de en fi fr sv

Und nägin maailmast estonian

Translations: en sco

Fraktalia estonian

Translations: de en fr

***[Läbi mu unede jooksevad kõrbekoerad] estonian

Translations: en uk

Doris Kareva
Author

About

* 28.11.1958, Tallinn, Estland, Estonia
lives in: Talinn, Estland, Estonia

Doris Kareva (born November 28, 1958 in Tallinn) is one of the most beloved poets in Estonia. She has published several collections of poetry, and written short stories and essays.

She has been a mentor for young poets, and has translated – with passion – kindred spirits of hers, Anna Akhmatova, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, Kahlil Gibran, Kabir, Rumi, Shakespeare and Irish contemporary poetry. Her own poetry has been translated into many languages, for example the full collection Shape of Time (Aja kuju) published in the UK in 2010 (in Estonian in 2005). As a literary stipendiate, Doris Kareva has worked in Sweden, Greece, United States, Flanders, Italy and Ireland, and presented her works in many countries. Kareva's poetry has been staged and many times set to music. Working now as the literary editor, she was for sixteen years the Secretary-General of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO.