Karl Ast
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Karl Ast (pseudonym: Karl Rumor, 19 February 1886 – 9 July 1971) was an Estonian writer and politician.[1]
Life
Ast's older brother, Gottlieb Ast, was the mayor of Tallinn in 1919. Karl attended the renowned Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu. Ast supported the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was imprisoned in Riga for a period from 1907 to 1910 as a result of his criticism of the authoritarian regime of the Tsar. He participated in the First World War in the Russian Imperial Army.
With the attainment of independence of the Republic of Estonia, Karl Ast entered politics. He was a member of the Estonian Constituent Assembly in 1919. From 1919 to 1933 he was a member of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). Between 1933 and 1939 he traveled the world (including the capitals of Europe, North Africa, India, Japan, China) and had written numerous travel accounts and reports. In 1939 he was Estonian press attaché in Sweden.
During the Second World War, Karl Ast emigrated from Europe, settling in Brazil, then in Canada and eventually in the U.S. He served with the Estonian government in exile until 1959.
Literary work
Karl Ast's literary debut came in 1911, shortly after his release from Tzarist imprisonment with the short story collection Script error: No such module "Lang". (The mosquitoes in the storm). In 1923/24 he was chairman of the Estonian Writers' Union. In addition to numerous short stories he wrote a novel (Krutsifiks, 1960), two volumes of memoirs and numerous travel books. His short stories made him one of the most popular exile writers of his time.
Bibliography
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1911, short stories and sketches)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1913, prose poem)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1913, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1920, under the pseudonym Kaarlo Orawa)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1921, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1926, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1928, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1928, romantic drama)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1929, erotic short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1930/31, travel reports)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1936, travelogue)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1943, a political treatise)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1953, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1959, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1960, novel)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1962, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1963–65, memories, two volumes)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1971, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1991, short stories)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1995, story)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (2007, essays, edited by Hando Runnel)
References
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