Mehis Heinsaar

Mehis Heinsaar (1973) is a renowned and award-winning Estonian author. His first two collections of stories published in 2001 – Vanameeste näppaja and Härra Pauli kroonikad – won the Betti Alver Debut Prize and the Estonian Cultural Endowment prose prize. He has also won the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award on three occasions and the Juhan Liiv Poetry Prize. Despite these accolades, Heinsaar has preserved his characteristically modest and slightly mysterious position – he is a cool eccentric of the backstreets of Tartu, and his life and activities are very similar to the parallel reality of his absorbing novels; a world where the supernatural seems natural. It can even be argued that in his short stories, Heinsaar has created an Estonian version of magical realism – its scope can be tangible, sometimes even cosy, but this in no way diminishes his visionary and dramatic streak.

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Date Event Name Location
Wednesday, 24 May at 18:00 New writing by Estonian authors: Eva Koff, Vahur Afanasjev, Mehis Heinsaar Estonian Writers’ Union

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