Mati Unt

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Mati Unt (January 1, 1944 Linnamäe village, Saare commune, Jõgevamaa, Estonia - August 22, 2005, Tallinn) was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director.

Unt's first novel, written at the age of 19, was Goodbye, Yellow Cat. This made him famous all over Estonia. He studied literature and journalism at Tartu University in Tartu, Estonia.

Of this prescient beginning‚ Unt arranged a wide call in the artistic and intellectual circles of Estonia as a writer of the fiction, plays, and criticism. His books The Moon Like the Outgoing Sun, The Debt (1964), On the Existence of life in space, and The Black Motorcyclist rocketed Unt to the top of the novelist world in Estonia. In addition, he served a purpose in bringing avantgarde theatre to post-Soviet Union Estonia. Unt was well known as a director. In 1981, he became a director of the Youth Theatre in Tallinn.

In 1979, his novel Autumn Ball brought him international recognition. Other books include 1990's Notebook of a Donor and the 2001 play Graal!.

There were two films made after his novels Tühirand and Sügisball after his death.

Mati Unt died in 2005. He is buried in the Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn.