Maarja Kangro
Author

Poems

DOONOR estonian

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ATEENA KOERAD estonian

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SIGA estonian

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ASBEST estonian

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KUNSTI LÜHILUGU estonian

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*** [Ukrainlannast põetaja] estonian

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TULE MU KOOPASSE, MATEERIA! estonian

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VANA ARMUKE estonian

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PIKK JA SEKSIKAS LÕPP estonian

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PÖÖRDUMATUSELIBLIKAS estonian

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Maarja Kangro
Author

About

* 20.12.1973, Tallinn, Estonia
lives in: Tallinn, Estonia

Maarja Kangro was born in Tallinn, on December 20, 1973, where she currently lives. She has published collections of poetry, children's books, collections of short stories, and a novel. In 2011, a collection of her poems, La farfalla dell’irreversibilità (The Butterfly of No Return) was published in Italian. Apart from Italian, her poems and short stories have been translated for example into English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, and Udmurt.

Among other prizes, she has won the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Literary Award for poetry (for Heureka, in 2009) and prose (for Ahvid ja solidaarsus, in 2011), being so far the youngest author who has won this award in both categories.

Maarja Kangro writes literary criticism and essays and has written opera librettos, texts for cantatas and other works of music. She has translated fiction, philosophy (Giorgio Agamben, Umberto Eco, Gianni Vattimo) and poetry by more than 100 poets (e.g. Jacopone da Todi, Giacomo Leopardi, Andrea Zanzotto, Valerio Magrelli, Philip Larkin, Bertolt Brecht, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Ernst Jandl). In 2003 she won the first prize in the Società Dante Alighieri competition for translations of Italian poetry.