Oskar Luts

Oskar Luts (7 January 1887 [O.S. 26 December 1886] – 23 March 1953) was an Estonian writer and playwright.

Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in Järvepera, central Estonia, at that time in the governorate of Livonia (Russian Empire). His younger brother was the film director and cinematographer Theodor Luts. Oskar Luts attended Änkküla village school in 1894. He went to Palamuse Parish school in Jõgeva County, attending from 1895–1899. In 1899–1902 he studied at the Tartu Reaalkool. In 1903, Luts started working as an apothecary apprentice in Tartu and Narva. After passing the apothecary apprentice exams, he went to work in Tallinn (1903). During his military service in Saint Petersburg (1909–1911) he also worked in the apothecary field. He continued this work in Dorpat while studying pharmacy at university.

When World War I started, Oskar Luts was conscripted into the Russian army. He worked as a military pharmacist in Pskov, Warsaw, Daugavpils, Vilnius and in Vitebsk (1915–1918), where he got married.

Oskar Luts was released from military duty for health reasons in the autumn of 1918 and went back to Tartu with his family the same year, where he started working as an apothecary. In 1919–1920 he worked at the university library and then managed a store. In 1922 he started his professional career as a writer.

In 1936, Luts began living in his home on Riia Street in Tartu. This house was converted into a museum in 1964.^[1]

Oskar Luts was the first Estonian writer to receive the title of People's Writer of the Estonian SSR. This was awarded to him in 1945.

Oskar Luts is buried in Ropka-Tamme cemetery.

Some streets and buildings in Estonia bear Oskar Luts's name. The Oskar Lutsu Palamuse Gümnaasium in Palamuse was named in honor of Luts.

Oskar Luts created his most joyfull literary works in the years before World War I. He wrote several comedies as well as his first novel called Kevade (Spring) (part I 1912, part II 1913). This popular novel portrayed the daily school life of young people in rural Estonia. Kevade proved to be Oskar Luts's most successful and well-known work.

La vida de los mismos personajes continuó en la novela de Luts, Suvi (Verano) (I 1918, II 1919), que también alcanzó gran popularidad. Sin embargo, aunque las secuelas posteriores ( Tootsi pulm (La boda de Toots), Argipäev (originalmente Äripäev , Días de trabajo)) y la novela Sügis (Otoño) (parte I – 1938) se escribieron para satisfacer la demanda del público, no lograron la popularidad de sus obras anteriores. Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sus obras contenían menos humor y eran mucho más sombrías. La segunda parte de Sügis permaneció en manuscrito durante cuatro décadas, y la historia completa no se publicó hasta 1988.

Hay películas estonias muy populares Primavera , Verano (película de 1976) (basada en Suvi y Tootsi pulm ) y Otoño (película de 1990) (basada en Argipäev y Sügis ). Todas las películas están producidas por Arvo Kruusement .

Oskar Luts también escribió para niños, y su libro infantil más popular es Nukitsamees (1920), que también fue adaptado al cine en 1981 ( Nukitsamees ). La música de Nukitsamees fue compuesta por Olav Ehala y es tan popular como la propia película.

Como dramaturgo, Oskar Luts es conocido principalmente por Kapsapea (La col). La película de animación "Kapsapea" está basada en sus escritos. El cortometraje narra la historia de una enorme col que crece en el jardín de una familia estonia. Esta col acaba causando sensación en Estados Unidos, Rusia y China.

Las obras de Oskar Luts han sido traducidas a numerosos idiomas.

• Oskar Kruus, ed. (1995). Eesti Kirjarahva Leksikon . Eesti Ramamat . ISBN 5-450-02357-X.

• Oskar Luts en IMDb