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Indrek Koff

***[Lastekirjanik kirjutab toredat lasteraamatut]

  • 1 Nad ütlevad | Translations: frnlfiende
  • 2 ootan sind | Translations: en
  • 3 ***[Lastekirjanik kirjutab toredat lasteraamatut] | Translations: fr
  • 4 ***[Ei tea]
  • 5 ***[Palume laureaadi korraks siiapoole]
  • 6 ***[Luuletused]
  • 7 Ümberjutustused. Artur Adson | Translations: en
  • 8 Ümberjutustused. Juhan Liiv | Translations: en
  • 9 Ümberjutustused. Gustav Suits | Translations: en
  • 10 Saja rahva lood | Translations: ende
Language: estonian
Translations: french (***[un écrivain pour enfants est en train d’écrire un chouette bouquin pour les enfants])
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***[Lastekirjanik kirjutab toredat lasteraamatut]

Lastekirjanik kirjutab toredat lasteraamatut.
Laps segab.
Lastekirjanik üritab segavast lapsest mitte välja teha ja jätkab toreda lasteraamatu kirjutamist.
Laps segab edasi.
Lastekirjanik teeb lapsele ettepaneku valida mõni muu tegevus,
et tema saaks jätkata toreda lasteraamatu kirjutamist.
Laps ei võta ettepanekut arvesse ja muudkui segab.
Lastekirjanik ärritub ja annab lapsele viimase hoiatuse.
Viimane hoiatus ei muuda lapse seisukohta ega käitumist.
Lastekirjanik tahab toredat lasteraamatut väga edasi kirjutada.
Ta hakkab lapse peale karjuma ja ähvardab teda mitmesuguste
vanatestamentlike karistustega.
Laps ei lase ennast ähvardustest häirida ja jätkab segamist.
Lastekirjaniku silmas on vihapisarad, ta röögatab, võtab lapse varrukast kinni
ja viib lapse tagatuppa, keelates väljumise ja edasised segamiskatsed kategooriliselt.
Naasnud töölaua taha, et kirjutada edasi toredat lasteraamatut,
märkab lastekirjanik, et raevust on saamas
enesehaletsus.
Tung on asendunud
tühjusega.

Ülesanne noorele lugejale.
Ühenda punktid joonega.
Kui on lünki, täida need.
Vasta küsimusele: kes või mis jäi ses võitluses peale?
Kirjuta õige sõna paberile.
Kasuta värvipliiatsit.

© Indrek Koff
Audio production: Estonian Literature Centre
Categories: child, poetry & poets, writing (poetry)

Translations:

Language: french

***[un écrivain pour enfants est en train d’écrire un chouette bouquin pour les enfants]

un écrivain pour enfants est en train d’écrire un chouette bouquin pour les enfants
son enfant le dérange
l’écrivain pour enfants essaye de ne pas faire attention à son enfant qui le dérange et continue d’écrire son chouette bouquin pour les enfants
son enfant continue à le déranger
l’écrivain pour enfants lui suggère de choisir une autre activité
pour pouvoir continuer à écrire son chouette bouquin pour les enfants
son enfant n’a pas l’intention de suivre sa proposition et continue à le déranger
l’écrivain pour enfants s’énerve et met en garde son enfant pour la dernière fois la dernière mise en garde ne change ni la position de l’enfant ni son comportement
l’écrivain pour enfants a tellement envie de continuer à écrire son si chouette livre pour enfants
qu’il se met à crier sur l’enfant et le menace de toutes sortes de châtiments inspirés de l’ancien testament
l’enfant ne se laisse pas troubler par ces menaces et continue à le déranger
l’écrivain pour enfants a aux yeux des larmes de colère il hurle et prend l’enfant par la manche
et l’emmène dans la chambre d’enfants, lui interdisant catégoriquement
d’en sortir et d’essayer de le déranger
une fois retourné à son bureau pour continuer à écrire son chouette livre pour enfants
l’écrivain pour enfants remarque que les larmes de colère se sont transformées en larmes de tristesse
la rage
en apitoiement sur soi
et que l’aspiration à écrire a été remplacée
par le néant

devoir pour le jeune lecteur
tire un trait pour aller d’un point à l’autre
s’il y a des vides remplis-les
réponds à la question qui a gagné ou qu’est-ce qui a gagné
écris sur un papier la bonne réponse
utilise des crayons de couleurs

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Indrek Koff

photo © Dmitri Kotjuh
* 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. 

 photo © Dmitri Kotjuh
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).   

Publications
  • Poeem

    poetry

    Tallinn: Härra Tee & proua Kohvi, 2016

  • Saja rahva lood

    poetry

    Tallinn: Härra Tee & proua Kohvi, 2016

  • Eestluse elujõust: hüsteeriline traktaat

    poetry

    Tallinn: Indrek Koffi Tõlketalu, 2010

  • Vana laul

    poetry

    Tallinn: Verb, 2006

  • Udmurtlyklen ulon kužmyz sjarys: isterija traktat

    poetry in translation

    Translated into Udmurt by Nadežda Pchelovodova

    Izhevsk: Invožo, 2012

  • oi suomi on

    poetry in translation

    Translated into Finnish by Mika Keränen

    Tartu: Keropää, 2018

  • Uitmõttepäevik. Võimalus jääb

    prose poem

    Tallinn: Härra Tee & proua Kohvi, 2019

  • Ootan sind

    poetry

    Tallinn: Härra Tee & Proua Kohvi, 2021

  • Хто переможе? = Kes võidab?

    Estonian: Ukrainian children book translated by Katja Novak

    Tallinn: Härra Tee & proua Kohvi, 2023

Awards
  • 2022 Karl Eduard Sööt Annual Award for Children's Poetry

  • 2017 The annual award of the literary magazine Looming

  • 2016 French Order of Arts and Letters

  • 2010 Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Award for Poetry

  • 2010 Wordwormer Prize

Links
  • Indrek Koff @ Estonian Children's Literature Centre

  • Indrek Koff @ Estonian Literature Centre

  • Indrek Koff @ Transpoesie 2018

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