Vaino Vahing 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, prosaist, psychiatrist

Psychiatrist

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 and playwright

Playwright

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Starting from 1973, he was a member of Estonian Writers Union.

Education and career

• 1963 – University of Tartu, Faculty of Medicine
• 1969 – Doctor of medicine
• 1963–1965 – head of department and deputy of the doctor-director at the psycho-neurological clinic in Jämejala
• 1965–1967 – doctor at the Tartu psychiatry clinic
• 1967–1975 – expert in forensic psychiatry
• 1968- 1981 – lecturer and later docent at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Tartu

Vaino Vahing has written many articles about psychiatry, but also literature – novels, books and plays with psychiatric and autobiographical influence.
He has played in several Estonian films.

Books and Novels in Estonian

• Lugu (Perioodika 1970)
• Kaemus (Eesti Raamat 1972)
• Sina (Perioodika 1973)
• E me ipso (Eesti Raamat 1990)
• Kaunimad jutud (Ilmamaa 1995)
• Thespis (Ilmamaa 1997)
• Machiavelli kirjad tütrele (Eesti Raamat 1990)
• Mängud ja kõnelused (Eesti Keele Sihtasutus 2002)
• Hermaküla
• Noor Unt (Perioodika 2004)
• Vaimuhaiguse müüt (Ilmamaa 2005)
• Näitleja (Vagabund 2006)
• Päevaraamat I (2006)
• Päevaraamat II (2007)

Personal

Vaino Vahing has been married to writer Maimu Berg and actress Heli Vahing. From the marriage with Maimu Berg he has a daughter Julia Laffranque

Julia Laffranque

Julia Laffranque , is an Estonian jurist, judge, legal scientist . She has been a judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 2011, earlier a justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia and professor of European law at the University of Tartu.-Education:* 1997 - graduation of the Law Faculty of...

, former justice at the Supreme Court of Estonia

Supreme Court of Estonia

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 and current European Court of Human Rights

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