„Kirjanduskliinikus” olen ma erinevate kirjandusteoste kaudu loonud ruume, kus empaatilises, kaastundlikus ja emotsionaalse intellektuaalsuse õhustikus tegeleda meie isiklike ja kollektiivsete haavadega, mälu ja ajalooga, mõelda oleviku ja tuleviku, keskkonna ja looduse, elamisjulguse ja armastuse üle. Olen mõelnud, mõtestanud ja kirjutanud, nii et tekiks kirjanduslikul viisil aset leidev kokkusaamine, sümboolne gravitatsioonijõud, mis tõmbaks inimesi üksteise poole, looks usaldust, tooks kaasa taipamisi, avanemisi ja sümboolseid uuestisünde, mis annavad julguse küsida: „Kes ma olen? Kes inimene on?”. Ning annaks tunde, et oleme hoitud. Imbi Paju
Author, journalist and filmmaker who now lives in Finland.
Paju has been operating in Finland as a correspondent of the Estonian newspapers Eesti Päevaleht and Postimees.
Before Estonia's re-independence, she worked in Tartu's Vanemuine Theatre opera chorus. In 2006, her book "Memories Denied" was published in Estonian, Swedish and Russian languages. Paju has also made a documentary of the same name, Memories Denied, which examined Paju's own family struggle during the Soviet period.
In 2009, she completed a documentary "Sisters Across the Gulf of Finland" which tells the story of the cooperation and friendship between the members of the Estonian and Finnish voluntary auxiliary organizations for women (Naiskodukaitse and Lotta Svärd) that began in the 1920s and was cut off by World War II and the Soviet occupation of Estonia.