In 1918 Oskar Kallas became a diplomat for the newly founded Republic of Estonia. Her visits to Saaremaa sparked the author’s interest in Estonia’s folk stories at the same she was captivated by nature in Estonia. Kallas mastered the Estonian language and sometimes wrote her works in parallel Estonian and Finnish. These caused tensions in her family and directed her creative work toward the theme of forbidden love. Kallas formed deep attachments to the psychiatrist Juhan Luiga and the Finnish poet Eino Leino. Petersburg, from 1903 to 1918 in Tartu, where she took an active part in Estonian cultural life. From 1900 to 1903 Aino Kallas lived in St. In 1900 she married the Estonian folklorist and linguist Oskar Kallas, whose roots were on Saaremaa. Her first collection of verse appeared in 1897, and her first collection of short stories in 1899, both under the pseudonym Aino Suonio. She made her literary debut in a journal in 1894. Between 18 Aino Krohn attended a Finnish girls’ school in Helsinki. Her father, Julius Krohn, was the professor of folklore at the University of Helsinki, and a poet. She was born on the Kiiskilä estate in Viipuri province, Finland. In the first half of the 20th century she was also the best-known writer about Estonia in the West. XI 1956) was a Finnish-Estonian writer with German and Finland-Swedish roots, who has achieved an international reputation for her myth-based novels and plays based on Estonian history, especially that of Saaremaa island. Aino Kallas (neé Aino Julia Maria Krohn, 2.

Sudenmorsian by Aino Kallas