Education
Mihkel Mutt studied philology and journalism at the University of Tartu from 1971 to 1976.
Mihkel Mutt studied philology and journalism at the University of Tartu from 1971 to 1976.
After completing his studies, he was an editor at a publishing house and for various literary journals until 1987. After he worked two years as a dramatist at a youth theater (Noorsooteater). Between 1990/91 Mutt was the head of the Information Department in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1992-1993 he worked for weekly newspapers Eesti Ekspress and Eesti Aeg and the daily Hommikuleht.
He also wrote scripts for television-series. From 1992 to 1999 he was the president of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Estonia
From 1997 to 2005 Mutt headed the cultural journal Sirp.
He has been the editor-in-chief of Estonia"s foremost literary magazine Looming since November 2005. Mihkel Mutt"s father was the English philologist and translator Oleg Mutt.
Mihkel Mutt was a member of the literary cooperative "Kupar" that was founded in 1987 by ten writers as the first non-state publishing house in the former Soviet Union.