Author Year: 2026

  • Bobbie Peers

    Bobbie Peers (b. 1974) is a Norwegian writer and film director. HeadRead has not previously hosted a Cannes Palme d’Or winner – Peers earned that distinction with his 2006 surrealist short film Sniffer. He made his literary debut in 2015 with the imaginative young adult novel Lyridiumstyven (The Lydium Thief, Estonian translation Helios, 2018, trans.…

  • Anti Saar

    Anti Saar (b. 1980) is an Estonian prose writer, children’s author and translator. He first attracted significant attention with his 2006 debut, How You Left and I Stayed Behind (Kuidas sa ära läksid ja mina maha jäin), an excerpt from which received the First Step Prize at the Prima Vista literary festival. Saar’s range is…

  • Ulla Saar

    Ulla Saar (b. 1975) is an Estonian designer and illustrator, and one of the country’s most highly regarded and award-winning creators of children’s book illustrations. Since 2013, she has collaborated with many of the leading voices in Estonian children’s literature, including Kadri Hinrikus, Indrek Koff, Kairi Look, Anti Saar, Liis Sein, Kätlin Vainola and Aino…

  • Ross Allen

    While one should always treat sweeping national generalisations and stereotypes with caution, they can occasionally be revealing. It is worth remembering that we Estonians tend to think of ourselves and our society as a collection of problems. Not that problems do not exist, but we often prefer to dwell on them rather than solve them,…

  • Mario Pulver

    Mario Pulver (b. 1980) is an Estonian poet, prose writer and playwright. His debut book was the poetry collection I Speak to You (Ma räägin sinuga, 2009), followed after a pause by The Law of Persistence (Jäävuse seadus, 2017). He then turned to prose, resulting in the novel Locomotive (Lokomotiiv, 2022), which was recognised in…

  • Thomas Piketty

    Thomas Piketty (b. 1971) is a French economist whose central area of study is public economics and related issues. His best-known work is Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Le Capital au XXIe siècle, 2013), which offered a view of the history of wealth and inequality that has attracted both considerable praise and criticism. Piketty argues…

  • Johanna Unt

    Johanna Unt (b. 1982) is an Estonian children’s author and illustrator who has published four books over the past four years. Her debut, House Sprites (Majahaldjad), skilfully blends everyday life with the inevitable mystery of the world – after all, who has not inexplicably lost their car keys or had items of clothing mysteriously disappear…

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