Jüri Talvet
Jüri Talvet is an Estonian poet and academic. He is the author of various literary works including poetry, criticism, and essays.
Education
Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from the University of Tartu in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.Career
In 1974 Talvet began teaching Western literary history at the University of Tartu and has worked as a full-time Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the university since 1992. In 1992/1993 he founded Spanish studies at the school.He has chaired the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature since 1994. He is the editor of Interlitteraria, the annual international journal of comparative literature published by Tartu University Press.
In addition to his university roles, Talvet has also worked as an Estonian translator of Spanish works by authors such as Francisco de Quevedo and Gabriel García Márquez.
Works
Poetry
- Äratused
- Ambur ja karje
- Hinge kulg ja kliima üllatused
- Eesti eleegia ja teisi luuletusi
- Kas sul viinamarju ka on?
- Unest, lumest
- Silmad peksavad une seinu
- Elegía estonia y otros poemas
- Estonian Elegy. Selected Poems
- Del sueño, de la nieve
Essays and Travelogues
- Teekond Hispaaniasse
- Hispaaniast Ameerikasse
- Hispaania vaim
- Ameerika märkmed ehk Kaemusi Eestist
- Sümbiootiline kultuur
- Tõrjumatu äär
- ''A Call for Cultural Symbiosis''
Translations
- Kadunud aja meri, Gabriel García Márquez
- Tormese Lazarillo elukäik,
- Valik luulet, Francisco de Quevedo
- Käsioraakel ja arukuse kunst, Baltasar Gracián
- Elu on unenägu, Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Suur maailmateater, Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Sevilla pilkaja ja kivist külaline, Tirso de Molina
- On the Way Home: An Anthology of Contemporary Estonian Poetry, translated with H. L. Hix
- Kindel kui linnulend, H. L. Hix
- ''Kohaühtsus, Carlos Vitale''
Edited books
- Meel paremat ei kannata / The Mind Would Bear No Better, Juhan Liiv, translated with H. L. Hix
- Tuulehoog lõi vetesse, Juhan Liiv
- ''Ameerika luule antoloogia. Poe’st, Whitmanist ja Dickinsonist XX sajandi lõpuni''