Mart Raud (14 September 1903 – 6 July 1980) was an Estonian poet, playwright and novelist.
[1] Mart Raud was born in Aidu, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia today Viljandi County, Estonia.
He was part a collective of friends who were later named "Arbujad" which represented a new direction in Estonian poetry before the World War II.
Raud's first verse collections "Kangastused" (revelations), published in 1924 and the following "Äitsmik" in 1925 contain romantic visions of nature and use dialects.
On 19 October 1931, Mart Raud was sentenced to three years in prison for forging the signatures on promissory notes.