Bernard Kangro
Bernard Kangro was born in Antsla Rural Municipality, Võru County, Estonia on September 18th, 1910 and is the Poet. At the age of 83, Bernard Kangro biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 1935 Bernard Kangro made his debut with the collection of poems Sonetid. Other volumes of poetry followed. From 1938 Kangro was a member of the artist group Arbujad (shamans), who strived towards a deeper emotional and spiritual experience of the language. Kangro worked as a journalist too, for the publication Eesti Sona in 1942 and Puhkus ja elurõõm in 1943. 1943/44 he worked at the Vanemuine theater in Tartu as a dramatist. In 1941 he also worked as an assistant and from 1942 to 1944 as a lecturer in literature at the University of Tartu.
Before the Soviet occupation in 1944, he was forced to flee into exile in Sweden. There, Bernard Kangro was one of the most prominent writers and journalists in exile. Initially he worked as an archivist in Karlstad, then from 1947 as a research assistant at the University of Lund. From 1950 until his death he was editor and publisher of the Estonian cultural magazine Tulimuld and from 1951 the Director of the Eesti Kirjanike Kooperatiiv (Estonian Writers' Cooperative).
Bernard Kangro has written numerous novels and volumes of poetry. Key themes center on country life in South Estonia and Tartu. In his poetry he used a creative, often symbolic language, where the mood alternates between irony, joy and also resignation.