Kairi Look


Kairi Look is an Estonian writer.

Biography

Kairi Look graduated in 2005 University of Tartu with a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy, and in 2008 with a master's degree in human movement sciences and rehabilitative medicine from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She has studied in the same field in Finland and the University of Ghent, in Belgium. She has worked as a publisher of scientific literature in Amsterdam and Paris. She writes children´s literature, prose, book critique, and translates fiction from Dutch to Estonian. She has received the annual prize of the literary magazine Looming for the best novella. She is the author of Aabits, a new Alphabet book published in 2024 by Koolibri. In 2025, her debut novel "Dance the Dust from the Floor" was published at Loomingu Raamatukogu for which she received the Writer of the Year 2025 award.

Translations

The Airport Bugs Fight On
  • French: Les punaises de l’aéroport font de la résistance, Le Verger des Hespérides 2019
  • Finnish: Lentokentän lutikat, Aviador 2018
  • Latvian: Lidostas blaktis nepadodas, Pētergailis 2019
  • Russian: Клопиная книга. Обитатели аэропорта не сдаются, КПД 2019
Ville the Lemur Flies the Coop
  • Lithuanian: Lemūriukas Vilius iškeliauja, BaltArt 2019
  • German: Ville macht sich auf die Socken, BaltArt 2013
Piia Biscuit Moves In
  • Finnish: Piia Pikkuleipä muuttaa, Aviador 2019
  • Russian: Пийа Пряник переезжает, Koolibri 2023
  • Polish: Piia Pierniczek się wprowadza, Widnokrąg 2023
  • German: Pia Pfefferminz zieht ein, Mixtvision 2025
Piia Biscuit and the Bandits
  • Latvian: Pija Prjaņika un bandīti, Pētergailis 2020
Piia Biscuit and the Word-Snatcher
  • Latvian: Pija Prjaņika un Vārdēdis, Petergailis 2022
Peter, Petey for friends
  • Russian: Пеэтер, для друзей Пеэтрике, Koolibri 2023
A Little Bit Big
  • Lithuanian: Truputį didelis, Misteris Pinkmanas 2024
  • Latvian: Mazlietiņ liels, Liels un mazs 2025

As a translator

  • "Milla ja mere lapsed", Eesti Raamat, 2022
  • "Kriimik", Eesti Raamat, 2022
  • "Mis juhtus Leoga?", Draakon ja Kuu, 2024
  • "Maailma novell", Eesti Jutt MTÜ, 2024

Awards

Nominations

  • 2014 – Culture Endowment of Estonia Annual Children's Literature Award
  • 2015 – Culture Endowment of Estonia Annual Children's Literature Award
  • 2017 - Tartu Children's literature Award
  • 2019 – Culture Endowment of Estonia Annual Children's Literature Award
  • 2020 - Tartu Children's Literature Award
  • 2022 – Book of the Year, best Estonian children's book
  • 2022 – Book of the Year, best translated children's book
  • 2022 – Babel Tower translation award
  • 2023 – Book of the Year, best Estonian children's book
  • 2024 – Babel Tower translation award
  • 2025 – Culture Endowment of Estonia Annual Children's Literature Award