Enn Soosaar was an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n translator

Translation

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, critic

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, columnist

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 and publicist

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. Soosaar translated the works of many American authors, including Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...

, William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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, and Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

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 into Estonian

Estonian language

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 and was instrumental in introducing American literature

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 to an Estonian audience. Soosaar was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tallinn. In February 1997, the Order of the National Coat of Arms

Order of the National Coat of Arms

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, Class IV was bestowed on him.
From 1944 to 1951, Soosaar studied at Hageri

Hageri

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's 7-grade school, after which he attended high school from 1951 to1954 at Tallinn's Second Gymnasium. From 1955 to 1956, he studied at the Tallinn Correspondence School. In 1964, he graduated from the distance education program at the Tartu State University

University of Tartu

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 with a degree in English philology.

External links

• The President of Estonia's tribute to Enn Soosaar