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    Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Born in Tallinn, Estonia...
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  • Jaane Jaan (transl. My Dear Beloved), released internationally as Suspect X, is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language mystery thriller film written and directed...
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    poor farmer community to an independent nation. In modern times, Jaan Kross and Jaan Kaplinski are Estonia's best-known and most-translated writers. Among...
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  • Treading Air (orig. Estonian Paigallend) is Jaan Kross' thirteenth novel. He tells the story of the generation of Estonians with which he grew up. The...
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  • primarily thanks to the work of composer Veljo Tormis. In modern times Jaan Kross and Jaan Kaplinski remain Estonia's best known and most translated writers...
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  • lawyer and politician Jaan Kross (1920–2007), Estonian contemporary writer Jaan Kruus (1884–1942), Estonian military General Jaan Kruusvall (1940–2012)...
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  • by Estonian writer Jaan Kross, published in 1988. A TV-series based on the novel was produced in 1994. Liukkonen, Petri. "Jaan Kross". Books and Writers...
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    1940, 23,868 titles were published. In modern times A. H. Tammsaare, Jaan Kross, and Andrus Kivirähk are Estonia's best-known and most translated writers...
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    Estonia Kross, Jaan (1993). Tabamatus. Kupar. Kross, Jaan; Ivo Iliste; Birgitta Göranson (1992). Motstånd. Natur & Kultur. ISBN 91-27-10271-8. Kross, Jaan; Juhani...
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    Canadian composer of orchestral, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works Jaan Kross (1920–2007), novelist, nominated for the Nobel prize in literature multiple...
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  • composer Eduard Tubin. Tubin finished it in 1968. The libretto is by Jaan Kross who based on Aino Kallas' novel Barbara von Tisenhusen. The novel depicts...
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  • Czar's Madman (Estonian: Keisri hull) is a 1978 novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross. This historical novel is about a Livonian nobleman, Timotheus Eberhard...
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  • mobilization in 1944. The series is based on a 1988 novel Wikmani poisid by Jaan Kross. The series were first aired in 1995 on Estonia's Eesti Televisioon. Each...
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  • (Estonian for Rakvere Novel) is a 1982 historical novel by Estonian writer Jaan Kross. It's about Rakvere's struggle for the 1302 gained town rights in the...
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  • Vastutuulelaev) is a 1984 Estonian novel about the astronomer Bernhard Schmidt by Jaan Kross. An English translation by Eric Dickens was published in January 2012...
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  • Departure is a 1984 historical novel set in czarist Russia by Estonian writer Jaan Kross. Friedrich Fromhold Martens, born in Pärnu, Estonia on 27 August 1845...
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    Three Plagues), a four-part historical novel by modern Estonian writer Jaan Kross, the first part published in 1970. Miljan, Toivo (2004). Historical Dictionary...
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  • katku vahel (Between Three Plagues) is a novel by the Estonian author Jaan Kross. It was first published in 1970. The main character of the historical...
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  • Eerik-Niiles Kross (born 1967), Estonian diplomat, politician and security advisor Jaan Kross (1920–2007), Estonian writer Märten Kross (born 1970), Estoninan...
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  • Prime Minister) Andres Kasekamp, historian Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist Jaan Kross, writer Kalevi Kull, biosemiotician Madis Kõiv, philosopher and physicist...
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    (China) 1993: V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad) 1994: Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) 1995: Jaan Kross (Estonia) 1996: Edward Saïd (United States) 1997: Yaşar Kemal (Turkey)...
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    Volume: 7 Issue: 211, 19 November 2010 Kross. Üksikud head mehed. Kaur Kender, Jaan Kross, Eerik-Niiles Kross. Tallinn 2011. ISBN 978-9949216468 Putin’s...
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    composed the opera Cyrano de Bergerac in 1974, to a libretto in Estonian by Jaan Kross, based on Rostand's play. The opera Cyrano by David DiChiera to a libretto...
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  • itself. First recipients was chosen out in 1971 by Tuglas itself. 1971 Jaan Kross: Neli monoloogi Püha Jüri asjus. Tallinn 1970 Paul Kuusberg: Roostetanud...
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    Jaan Kross after a short story by Aino Kallas The Parson of Reigi (Reigi õpetaja), opera (1970–1971); libretto Aino Kallas, completed by Jaan Kross Requiem...
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    Athanasiadis Bogdan Bogdanović Oskár Elschek Ferenc Glatz Lech Kalinowski Jaan Kross Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin 1998: Imre Bak Andrei Corbea-Hoișie Eliška Fučíková...
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    Athanasiadis Bogdan Bogdanović Oskár Elschek Ferenc Glatz Lech Kalinowski Jaan Kross Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin 1998: Imre Bak Andrei Corbea-Hoișie Eliška Fučíková...
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    Martens' Departure (Professor Martensi ärasõit, 1984) by Estonian author Jaan Kross. In 1952, the German émigré scholar in the US, Arthur Nussbaum, himself...
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  • created in 1974 by Estonian composer Eino Tamberg. The libretto is by Jaan Kross and is based on the 1897 play of Edmond Rostand. The premiere was on 2...
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    original. Michael Sittow (as Michel Sittow) is the main character in Jaan Kross' short story Four Monologues on St. George (Estonian: Neli monoloogi Püha...
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