Andres Allan


Andres-Allan Ellmann was an Estonian poet.

Life

Andres Allan was born in Tallinn. He was the younger brother of artist. He attended primary school at Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 and secondary school at Tallinn Secondary School No. 2, graduating in 1983. After secondary school, he studied at the Institute of [Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church].

Andres Allan wrote poetry with a mystical-religious connotation. His poems have been published in the newspaper Edasi and in the magazines Vikerkaar, Kultuur [ja Elu], Looming, Marm, and Noorus.
He died after a fall from balcony in Tallinn in 1988, aged 22. It is uncertain whether the fall was a suicide or an accident. He was buried in Pärnamäe Cemetery in Tallinn.

Books

Poetry

Urjamised Öötrükid, edited by Lauri Sommer

Family

Video game designer and novelist Robert Kurvitz is his nephew.