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Place of Birth: Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
About Tiit Aleksejev
- Tiit Aleksejev (born 6 July 1968) is an Estonian novelist and playwright.Aleksejev was born in Kohtla-Järve.
- He studied history at the University of Tartu, and served as a diplomat in France and Belgium. His debut novel was a thriller called Valge kuningriik (The White Kingdom, 2006).
- It won the Betti Alver Prize for best first novel.
- His second novel was a work of historical fiction, set in the time of the First Crusade.
- This novel called Palveränd (The Pilgrimage, 2008) won the EU Prize for Literature and was translated into several languages subsequently (e.g.
- Italian, Hungarian, and Finnish).
- In 2011, he published a third novel Kindel linn (Stronghold).
- Palveränd and Kindel linn are the first and second part of what is to become a trilogy. His first play Leegionärid (Legionaries), about the fallen soldiers of the Estonian Legion, appeared in 2010 and premiered in 2013 in Rakvere.
- It received the Virumaa Literary Award in 2011.
- Another historical play, Kuningad (Kings) was published in 2014 and is about the murder of the four Estonian kings during the St.
- George's Night Uprising (1343). Aleksejev lives in Tallinn.
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