Kalle Käsper

Kalle Käsper (born 1952 in Tallinn) is an Estonian writer.

Käsper was the husband of Armenian writer Gohar Markosjan-Käsper. Notable works by Käsper include "Buridanid", "Taani prints Hamlet, nuhk" (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, a Spy). He has co-authored the screenplay of "Jüri Rumm", a popular Estonian film (of 1994). His novel "Üksindus on hommikuti hell" (Loneliness is tender in the morning) has been translated into Russian (Russian: Oda utrennemu odinočestvu), was published in the literary journal Neva). Käsper's work "Saksamaa õppetunnid”" (The Lessons of Germany) won a yearly prize of the Russian magazine Zvezda, where this translation was published.^[1]

In recent years, Käsper has published in Estonian newspapers comments on politics and current affairs, distinguished by criticism towards the developments in post-Soviet Estonia and disapproval of cultural Americanisation. Käsper as a publicist is also supportive of Russia and Russian president Vladimir Putin^[2] and has expressed nostalgic attitudes to some aspects of the Soviet period^[3] – none of which is common in the Estonian public. Käsper (a Russian philologist by education) has also translated into Estonian a number of works by Russian authors.

Bibliography

• Alliksandriine (2003)
• Vennad Luiged (2002)
• Taani prints Hamlet, nuhk (2004)

References