Mati Sirkel

Mati Sirkel (b. 1949) is the Chairman of the Union of Estonian Writers. He has worked as a literary researcher and as editor at the Perioodika publishing company. Since 1991, he has been a free-lance translator. He has produced Estonian translations of German literature in particular, including works by Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, Peter Handke and Franz Kafka, but also English (George Orwell), Swedish (Bellman) and Dutch literature (Cees Nooteboom).
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