Sulev Iva (born 3 October 1969 in

Võru Võru (; ; ) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia. It is the capital of Võru County and the centre of Võru Parish. History Võru was founded on 21 August 1784, at the request of the Empress Catherine II of Russia, by the o ...

), also known under the

Võro Võro may refer to: * Võro people, an ethnic group of Estonia * Võro language, a language belonging to the Baltic-Finnic branch of the Finno-Ugric languages of Estonia * Võro Institute, the governing organization of the Võro language * Õil ...

-styled

pen name A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...

of Jüvä Sullõv, is a

identity advocate, and a founding fellow at the

Võro Institute Võro Institute (, ) is an Estonian state research and development institution dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Võro language and culture. History Võro ( , ) is a language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic lan ...

. He has authored numerous subjects on

-related topics, and coauthored an ABC book and a reader of the

Võro language Võro ( ; , ) is a South Estonian language. It has its own literary standard and efforts have been undertaken to seek official recognition as an indigenous regional language of Estonia. Võro has roughly 75,000 speakers (Võros), mos ...

for

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children.

Works

* Iva, Sulev (2007): Võru kirjakeele sõnamuutmissüsteem (Inflectional Morphology in the Võro Literary Language). Dissertationes Philologiae Estonicae Universitatis Tartuensis 20, Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus * Jüvä, Sullõv (2002): Võro-eesti synaraamat (Võro-Estonian dictionary). Publications of Võro Institute 12. Tarto-Võro.

Sources

* Central Library of Võru County *

References

1969 births Living people Estonian non-fiction writers University of Tartu alumni People from Võru {{Estonia-writer-stub