Background
Aleksejev was born on 6 July 1968 in Kohtla-Järve.
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Tiit Aleksejev
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He studied history at the University of Tartu, and served as a diplomat in France and Belgium.
Career
His debut novel was a thriller called Valge kuningriik (The White Kingdom, 2006). His second novel was a work of historical fiction, set in the time of the First Crusade. In 2011, he published a third novel Kindel linn (Stronghold).
Palveränd and Kindel linn are the first and second part of what is to become a trilogy.
His first play Leegionärid (Legionaries), about the fallen soldiers of the Estonian Legion, appeared in 2010 and premiered in 2013 in Rakvere. Another historical play, Kuningad (Kings) was published in 2014 and is about the murder of the four Estonian kings during the Saint George"s Night Uprising (1343).
Aleksejev lives in Tallinn.
Achievements
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lieutenant won the Betti Alver Prize for best first novel. This novel called Palveränd (The Pilgrimage, 2008) won the European Union Prize for Literature and was translated into several languages subsequently (eg Italian, Hungarian, and Finnish). lieutenant received the Virumaa Literary Award in 2011.
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Nationality
Estonia