Indrek Koff
Author

Poems

Nad ütlevad estonian

Translations: fr nl fi en de

ootan sind estonian

Translations: en

***[Lastekirjanik kirjutab toredat lasteraamatut] estonian

Translations: fr

***[Ei tea] estonian

***[Palume laureaadi korraks siiapoole] estonian

***[Luuletused] estonian

Ümberjutustused. Artur Adson estonian

Translations: en

Ümberjutustused. Juhan Liiv estonian

Translations: en

Ümberjutustused. Gustav Suits estonian

Translations: en

Saja rahva lood estonian

Translations: en de

Indrek Koff
Author

About

* 04.03.1975, Pärnu, Estonia
lives in: Tallinn, Estonia

Indrek Koff was born in Estonia, Pärnu, in 1975. He graduated from the University of Tartu in French language and literature, and has studied in the College of Translators and Interpreters in Paris (L’Ecole Superieure d’interpretes et de traducteurs, ESIT, France). He has taught at several Estonian universities and worked as a freelance translator since 1998. Koff has translated from the French and Portuguese into Estonian works by authors including Foucault, Maeterlinck, Houellebecq, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and others. He also collaborated on compiling a large French-Estonian-French dictionary.

Koff primarily enjoys writing for children but his “hysterical treatise” Eestluse elujõust (On the Energy of Estonian Essence), which teeters between poetry and prose, received Estonia’s most prestigious award for poetry in 2010. Koff has continued his search for intriguing literary opportunities since then, publishing a number of unusual genre-shifting works such as Saja rahva lood (Stories of a Hundred Nations) and Poeem (A Long Poem).