Tonu Onnepalu Author

Tõnu Õnnepalu (b. 1962) writes autobiographically influenced fiction under a variety of pen names, including, in the case of Exercises, Anton Nigov. He received the Baltic Assembly Prize. He lives in Tallinn and on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. Adam Cullen (b. 1986) is a translator of Estonian prose, poetry, and drama into English. His latest translations include Tõnu Õnnepalu’s Exercises (2019), Eno Raud’s The Gothamites (2019), and Kai Aareleid’s Burning Cities (2018, long-listed for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award). Originally from Minnesota, he has lived in Estonia for over a decade.