A People without a Past
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Jaan Kross is Estonia's best-known and most widely translated author. He was born in Tallinn in 1920 and lived much of his life under either Soviet or German occupation. He won countless awards for his writing, including The National Cultural Award, The Amnesty International Golden Flame and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. He died in 2007.

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He deserved a Nobel prize and would probably have got it had he written in any other language but Estonian. - Guardian.He's a marvellous novelist - his scope and depth make him a world writer - and they should just hurry up and give him the Nobel. - Doris LessingHe's almost alone in writing in the older European tradition of the large-scale historical novel. I'd argue that Kross is heir to the 'great' Russo-European 19th century novelists; his fiction has Tolstoyan sweep. On reading him, moreover, we rediscover that Estonia was always resolutely in Europe and not some obscure outpost this side of the Urals. - Fiona SampsonNo stranger to oppression himself, Kross writes about it with a poignancy devoid of anger. - Adam Zamoyski

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