Betti Alver
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Elisabet "Betti" Alver (23 November [O.S. 10 November] 1906 – 19 June 1989),[1] was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.[2]
Writing
She began as a prose writer. She became known for being a member of the Arbujad ("Soothsayers"), a small group of influential Estonian poets including Bernard Kangro, Uku Masing, Kersti Merilaas, Mart Raud, August Sang, Heiti Talvik and Paul Viiding. After the war her husband Heiti Talvik was imprisoned by the Soviets and died in Siberia.[3] For two or three decades she was silent as a poet as protest of Soviet rule, but renewed activity in the 1960s. Of note in this second period is the 1966 collection Tähetund or "Starry Hour". She also wrote novels and did translation work.[4] On the hundredth anniversary of her birth a museum was dedicated to her in Jõgeva.[5]
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- 1906 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from Jõgeva
- People from Kreis Dorpat
- 20th-century Estonian novelists
- 20th-century Estonian poets
- Estonian women novelists
- Estonian women poets
- 20th-century Estonian women writers
- 20th-century Estonian translators
- Arbujad
- People's Writers of the Estonian SSR
- Honoured Writers of the Estonian SSR
- Burials at Raadi cemetery