August Sang

August Sang
Born(1914-07-27)27 July 1914
Pernau, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
(now Pärnu, Estonia)
Died14 October 1969(1969-10-14) (aged 55)
Tallinn, Estonia
Occupation(s)Poet, literary translator
Years active1934–1959
SpouseKersti Merilaas

August Sang (27 July 1914 – 14 October 1969) was an Estonian poet and literary translator.[1] Sang was a member of the Arbujad literary group, which represented a new direction in Estonian poetry before the outbreak of World War II. He was known as a translator of poetry from German, Russian, French and Czech languages.

  1. ^ Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries, Volume 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, p34