Jaan Kaplinski

Jaan Kaplinski, a linguist and anthropologist, was a leading poet of Estonia. He was born in Tartu, Estonia, the son of a Polish father and Estonian mother. Kaplinski studied Romance languages and structural and mathematical linguistics at Tartu State University. He has translated works from Spanish, French, English, Polish, and Chinese, and provided the literal translations for his own collection The Wandering Border, his second book published in the US.