Vaino Vahing (15 February 1940 – 23 March 2008) was an

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n writer, prosaist,

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and

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. Starting from 1973, he was a member of the

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Early life

Vlahing was born in

Aravu Aravu is a village in Räpina Parish, Põlva County in eastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) Writer and psychiatrist Vaino Vahing (1940–2008) was born in Aravu. References

Villages in Põlva County {{Põlva-geo-stub ...

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. In 1963 he attended the

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, Faculty of Medicine, qualifying as a Doctor of Medicine in 1969. * 1963–1965 – head of department and deputy of the doctor-director at the psycho-neurological clinic in Jämejala * 1965–1967 – doctor at the Tartu psychiatry clinic * 1967–1975 – expert in forensic psychiatry * 1968–1981 – lecturer and later docent at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Tartu Vahing wrote many articles about psychiatry, but also literature, including novels, books and plays with psychiatric and autobiographical influences. He acted in several Estonian films. He died in

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List of works

* (Perioodika 1970) * (Eesti Raamat 1972) * (Perioodika 1973) * (Eesti Raamat 1990) * (Ilmamaa 1995) * (Ilmamaa 1997) * (Eesti Raamat 1990) * (Eesti Keele Sihtasutus 2002) * * (Perioodika 2004) * (Ilmamaa 2005) * (Vagabund 2006) * (2006) * (2007)

Honors

* Estonian White Cross, fourth category

Personal

Vahing was married to writer

Maimu Berg Maimu Berg (born August 27, 1945, in Tallinn) is an Estonian writer, critic, translator, and journalist. She was a member of the Riigikogu, elected in 2011. Berg graduated from secondary school in Tallinn in 1968, and took her degree in Estonia ...

and actress Heli Vahing. From his marriage with Berg he had a daughter, Julia Laffranque, former justice in the

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and current

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judge.

References

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