Tiit Aleksejev

Tiit Aleksejev (born 6 July 1968) is an Estonian novelist and playwright.

He studied history at the University of Tartu, and served as a diplomat in France and Belgium.

His debut novel was a thriller called Valge kuningriik (The White Kingdom, 2006).

This novel called Palveränd (The Pilgrimage, 2008) won the EU Prize for Literature and was translated into several languages subsequently (e.g. Italian, Hungarian, and Finnish).

His first play Leegionärid (Legionaries), about the fallen soldiers of the Estonian Legion, appeared in 2010 and premiered in 2013 in Rakvere.

Tiit Aleksejev at the annual Literary Street festival 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia
Tiit Aleksejev in 2018