Doris Kareva


Doris Kareva is an Estonian poet and translator. She serves as the head of the Estonian National Commission in UNESCO.

Life

Kareva was born in Tallinn. Her father, Hillar Kareva, was a notable composer. She studied English language and literature at the University of Tartu and started to write poetry in the 1960s. She is a recipient of a number of state awards, including two Estonian State Cultural Awards and the Order of the White Star.
She translated to Estonian, among other authors, William Shakespeare, Anna Akhmatova, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Brodsky, Kahlil Gibran, Kabir, W. H. Auden, and Samuel Beckett.

Selected works

Kareva's poetry was translated to 18 languages as of 2014.
;Poetry books