1. Jaan Kaplinski was influenced by Eastern philosophical schools.
16 Facts About Jaan Kaplinski
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Jaan Kaplinski worked as a translator, editor, and sociologist and as an ecologist at the Tallinn Botanic Garden.
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Jaan Kaplinski was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Jaan Kaplinski studied Romance languages and linguistics under Kallista Kann at the University of Tartu, graduating as a French philologist in 1964.
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Jaan Kaplinski worked as a translator, editor, and sociologist, and ecologist at the Tallinn Botanic Garden.
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From 1992 to 1995 Jaan Kaplinski was a member of the Riigikogu.
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Jaan Kaplinski was originally a candidate on the Centre Party list, but soon became an independent representative.
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Jaan Kaplinski was elected as the second Social Democrat candidate, collecting 1,045 votes.
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Jaan Kaplinski was one of those intellectuals who supported Toomas Hendrik Ilves' candidature.
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Jaan Kaplinski's father was Jerzy Bonifacy Edward Kaplinski, a Polish professor of philology at Tartu University, who was arrested by Soviet troops and died of starvation in a Soviet labour camp in 1943.
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Jaan Kaplinski's great-uncle was Polish painter and political activist Leon Kaplinski.
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Jaan Kaplinski was married to writer and director of the Tartu Toy Museum, Tiia Toomet.
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Jaan Kaplinski had a daughter, translator Maarja Kaplinski, from his first marriage to Kullike Kaplinski.
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Jaan Kaplinski had a relationship with Estonian classical philologist and translator Anne Lill, with whom he had a son, composer Mart-Matis Lill.
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Jaan Kaplinski translated writings from French, English, Spanish, Chinese, including the Tao Te Ching, and Swedish, the work of Tomas Transtromer.
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Jaan Kaplinski was one of the authors and initiators of the so-called Letter of 40 intellectuals action.