Toomas Vint

{{Short description|Estonian painter and writer}}

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Toomas Vint (born 5 March 1944 in Tallinn) is an Estonian painter and writer.{{cite web |title=EKM Digitaalkogu |url=https://digikogu.ekm.ee/authors/author_id-625 |website=digikogu.ekm.ee |access-date=25 May 2021}} He has won the Friedebert Tuglas short story award twice, as well as the Estonian Prose Award.{{cite web | title=The Sweepstakes of Love | website=Dalkey Archive | url=https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/the-sweepstakes-of-love }}

Awards

  • 1986: Konrad Mägi Prize
  • 2012: Order of the White Star, III class.{{cite web |title=Teenetemärkide kavalerid: Toomas Vint |url=https://www.president.ee/et/vabariik/teenetemargid/kavaler/18607/toomas-vint |website=www.president.ee |access-date=23 May 2021}}

Literary works

  • Suitsupilvedes unistus [A dream in clouds of smoke] (poetry collection, 1968)
  • Perekondlikud mängud [Family games] (short story, 1977)
  • Kojamehe naine [Housekeeper's wife] (novel, 1990)
  • Minu abielu prostituudiga [My marriage to a prostitute] (novel, 2003)
  • Üüriline [Tenant] (novel, 2009)
  • An Unending Landscape. Translated by Eric Dickens. Dalkey Archive Press, 2012. {{ISBN|978-1564787361}}
  • The Sweepstakes of Love. Translated by Matthew Hyde. Dalkey Archive Press, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1564789471}}

References