Author Year: 2026

  • Piret Raud

    Piret Raud (b. 1971) is an Estonian writer and artist. Having begun her career in the 1990s as a children’s author and illustrator, Raud has since become one of Estonia’s most highly regarded and award-winning writers, whose work has reached far beyond the country’s borders. She has published several dozen children’s books, the most recent…

  • Eva Koff

    Eva Koff (b. 1973) is an Estonian prose writer, translator and playwright. Her plays brought her considerable acclaim in the 2000s at competitions organised by the Estonian Theatre Agency, but in the following decade she turned increasingly towards longer prose. Her debut novel Blue Mountain (Sinine mägi), published in 2017, won second prize in the…

  • Kaur Riismaa

    Kaur Riismaa (b. 1986) is an Estonian writer, critic and essayist. His work is characterised by breadth and playfulness. A recent and widely noted example is the essay How We Killed the Sacred, published under the pseudonym Nora Maria London, which won last year’s Estonian Cultural Endowment essay competition “The Next 100 Years of Estonian…

  • Alhierd Bacharevič

    Alhierd Bacharevič (b. 1975 in Minsk) is a Belarusian writer. He studied Belarusian literature and linguistics at the Pedagogical University in Minsk. He has published several novels and essay collections, and his books have been translated into German, English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and other languages. In 2025, he received the Leipzig Book Award for European…

  • Ruth Kvarnström-Jones

    Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (b. 1962) is a writer born in England who has lived in Sweden for forty years and has become one of the country’s most popular historical novelists. This is largely due to her deep affection for her home city of Stockholm, which she has expressed in a witty and focused way by telling…

  • Maija Kajanto

    Maija Kajanto (b. 1978) is a Finnish writer. Her debut novel, Mittoja ja tilaustöita (Measurements and Commissions), a sharp-eyed portrayal of modern-day busyness, was published in 2019. Since then, Kajanto has produced works in what seems like an unending stream, with ten titles across three series to date. This creative abundance has also made its…

  • Timo Parvela

    Timo Parvela (b. 1964) is a Finnish writer and one of Finland’s most prolific and widely read authors. He has published what amounts to a small library of works for children, young people and adults alike. As is often the case today, Parvela is particularly fond of writing series, among which Ella and Friends stands…

  • Simon Mason

    Simon Mason (b. 1962) is an English novelist who writes for children, young people and adults. Two instalments of his extensive and versatile body of work – from the Wilkins Detective Series – have been translated into Estonian. The series centres on an unusual detective duo: both men share the surname Wilkins, but one, Ryan,…

  • Ali Standish

    Ali Standish is an American writer of young adult fiction. She began her award-winning career in 2017 with her debut novel The Ethan I Was Before. The book follows a boy named Ethan, who moves from Boston to the countryside to live with his grandfather after losing his best friend. There he befriends a charismatic…

  • Hugo Vaher

    Hugo Vaher (b. 1974) is an Estonian prose writer. His debut novel Punk Is Not Dead (Punk ei ole surnud, Tänapäev) was published in 2012 and, as the title suggests, explores one of the most significant subcultures in Estonia’s recent history. Set in the late 1980s, the coming-of-age story follows young people forming a band,…

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