Lilli Promet was an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n writer. During the Soviet

Soviet Union

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 occupation of Estonia in the 1960s, she was a member of the Communist Party

Communist party

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Early life

Promet was born on February 16, 1922 in Petseri to an Estonian painter, Aleksander Promet. After finishing Tallinn's 18 Elementary School, she entered the State's Art-Industry School in 1935, from which she graduated in 1940. Her family was forced to leave their home after the outbreak of World War II.

Promet died on February 16, 2007, her 85th birthday in Tallinn

Tallinn

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Books

The following is a partial list of works published by Lilli Promet

• Roosa kübar (1961)
• Meesteta küla (1962, novel)
• Lamav tiiger (1964)
• Kes levitab anekdoote? (1967)
• Iibelpuu (1970)
• Primavera (1971, novel)
• Raamita pildid (1976, essays)
• A Summer's Painting and Other Stories (1984)
• Õhtusel alleel (1989)
• Iisabel: Romaan (1992)
• Aheldatud muusa (1997)

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