Paul Rummo (14 July 1909 Kalbu,

Kehtna Parish Kehtna Parish () is a rural municipality in central Estonia. It is a part of Rapla County. The municipality has a population of 5,182 (as of 1 January 2004) and covers an area of 507.3 km2. The population density is 10.2 inhabitants per km2 ...

Kreis Harrien Harrien County ( or , , ) was one of the four counties of the Governorate of Estonia. It was situated in the central part of the governorate (in present-day northern Estonia). Its capital was ''Reval'' (Tallinn), which was the capital of the gov ...

– 28 March 1981) was an

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n poet, playwright, and literary critic. From 1948 to 1949, Rummo was the chief editor for the publishing house Ilukirjandus ja Kunst (Fiction and Art). Before 1958, he held several positions, including the head of

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. From 1955 to 1958, Rummo wrote and repeatedly revised the screenplay for the feature film ''

Mahtra sõda ''Mahtra sõda'' (The Mahtra War) is a 1902 novel by Eduard Vilde. It is the first part of a trilogy of historical novels about the peasant movements of the 1900s. The second work of the trilogy is ''Kui Anija mehed Tallinnas käisid'' (When Ani ...

'' (The Mahtra War). Production of the film was halted due to censorship and it was never released. In 1967, Rummo completed the

anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors. There are also thematic and g ...

''Eesti luule'' (Estonian Poetry). His son is the writer

Paul-Eerik Rummo Paul-Eerik Rummo (born 19 January 1942) is an Estonian poet, playwright, translator and politician who was the former Estonian Minister of Culture and Education, as well as the former Estonian Minister of Population Affairs. Rummo was born in T ...

Works

* 1946: ''Võitlev kodumaa'' (The Fighting Homeland), poetry collection * 1950: ''Rahva võim'', poetry collection * 1952: ''Katkukülvajad'', poetry collection * 1955: ''Veerev kivi'' (Rolling Stone), poetry collection * 1961: ''Proloog ja poeemid'', poetry collection * 1969: ''Katkenud lõng'', poetry collection * 1979: ''Matkalaul'', poetry collection

References

1909 births 1981 deaths Politicians from Kehtna Parish People from Kreis Harrien Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1940–1947 Estonian male poets 20th-century Estonian poets Soviet military personnel of World War II Honoured Workers of the Arts Industry of the Estonian SSR Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples {{Estonia-poet-stub