Jaan Kaplinski
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Jaan Kaplinski (born in Tartu, 19 January 1941) is an Estonian poet, scholar, and culture critic.
Kaplinski is known for his free mind, global problems, and his encouragement for left-wing/liberal thinking.
He has been inspired by Eastern philosophical schools (particularly buddhism) at Tartu University, graduating as a French philologist and ecologist, editor, and ecologist at the Tallinn Botanic Garden, and a narrator.
He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Early life and education
Kaplinski was born in Tartu to Polish teacher Jerzy Kaplinski and Estonian dancer Nora Raudsepp-Kaplinski. At the University of Tartu, he studied Romance language and linguistics, graduating as a French philologist in 1964.
Personal life
Nora (Raudsepp) was Estonian, and Kaplinski's mother, Nora (Raudsepp), was Estonian. Jerzy Bonifacy Edward Kaplinski, a Polish professor of philology at Tartu University, was detained by Soviet troops and died of starvation in a Soviet labour camp in 1945. Leon Kapliski, a Polish painter and political activist, was his great-uncle. Kaplinski, a young boy, began to believe that his father had distant Jewish ancestry and that he was a distant cousin of Jacob Frank.
Kaplinski was married to writer and director of the Tartu Toy Museum in Tiia Toomet. They had three sons and one daughter, Ott-Siim Toomet, Lauris Kaplinski, Lemmit Kaplinski, and Elo-Mall Toomet. From his first marriage to Küllike Kaplinski, he had a daughter, translator Maarja Kaplinski. He had a long-term relationship with Estonian classical philologist and translator Anne Lill, with whom he had a son, composer Märt-Matis Lill.