(*1961)
Rein Raud, once the Rector of Tallinn University, a cultural semiotician and humanities scholar, was born in 1961 in Tallinn, Estonia. He is a writer, journalist, translator and academic, working on Japanese literature and philosophy. He has translated Dante Alighieri’s La Vita nuova into Estonian and books by a number of Japanese thinkers. In addition to academic publications, he has written many works of fiction, including novels with 20th century themes and a political science fiction thriller. He has won numerous awards for his works of fiction. He teaches at universities in Estonia and Finland and hosts a philosophy talk show on Estonian television.
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