Veera Saar

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Veera Saar (born Veera-Alise Döring, 28. III 1912 – 20. VII 2004) was an Estonian prose-writer and teacher.

She was born near Yamburg in Russia, whither her parents had emigrated from Kadrina parish near Tapa. The family returned to Estonia when the future writer was seven. In 1931 she graduated from Jõhvi Gymnasium, and in 1937 from the faculty of philosophy at the University of Tartu. In 1940 she defended her master’s thesis on the subject of folklore, Luust sõrmus ('The Bone Ring'). Academically she was a member of Lembela student sorority from 1935. From 1937 to 1958 she worked as a teacher of Estonian language and literature, in Tartu, Kehtna and Jäneda. From 1958 she lived at Aruküla (near Tallinn), where she wrote most of her books. L
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Ukuaru

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Kraakuvi mägi

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Maa hind

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Kodutee

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Ira

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Aprillipäev

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Lõokesed taeva all

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Neid ammuseid aegu

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Põlatud maa

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