Kersti Merilaas was born Eugenie Moorberg in to Jaan Johannes and Anna Moorberg in Narva, in the Saint Petersburg Governorate shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
10 Facts About Kersti Merilaas
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Kersti Merilaas spent her early childhood in St Petersburg, Russia with her mother and younger sister Lydia.
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In 1936, Merilaas married the Estonian writer and translator August Sang.
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From 1936, Kersti Merilaas lived in Tartu, where she was employed as a librarian.
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Kersti Merilaas was a member of the influential group of Estonian poets brought together in 1938 by literary scholar Ants Oras who was greatly influenced by T S Eliot.
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In 1950, Kersti Merilaas was forced to resign from the Soviet Writers Association of Estonia.
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In 1960, after the relaxation of Soviet authorities, Kersti Merilaas was again permitted to write literature for adults.
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Besides poetry and prose, Kersti Merilaas wrote libretti for three operas by Estonian composer Gustav Ernesaks and translated German works of Bertolt Brecht, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into the Estonian language.
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Kersti Merilaas died in Tallinn, Estonia in 1986 at the age of 72.
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In 1976, Kersti Merilaas was awarded the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award for her work Eilsete perest.