Piret Raud

Piret Raud (born 15 July 1971) is a contemporary Estonian author and illustrator.

She is the daughter of Estonian children's authors Eno Raud and Aino Pervik.

After trying her hand at writing, Raud has since become the most renowned and widely translated children's author in Estonia.

Her fiction has been well received: she has received the A. H. Tammsaare Literary Award (2020) for her novel Verihurmade aed (The Garden of Devil's Milks),[4] been nominated for the Estonian Cultural Endowment Annual Award for Literature (2021) for Kaotatud sõrmed (Lost Fingers)[5] and most recently won the prestigious Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award (2022) for her short story Pink (The Bench).

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