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Over her lifetime, she penned more than forty books of both prose and poetry for children. She also wrote a number of collections of prose and poetry for adults. Her works have been translated into eighteen languages.[1]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsBiography[edit]Selected works[edit]Poetry books[edit]Prose[edit]Awards and honors[edit]References[edit]Biography[edit]Ellen Hiob was born in 1928 in Tallinn, Estonia. She attended school in Tapa and in Tallinn, then graduated from the University of Tartu in the field of Estonian philology in 1952. After working as a poetry consultant at the Writers’ Union of the ESSR from 1956 to 1961, she was forced to resign for ideological reasons. Afterward, Niit worked as an editor of children’s television programmes, and in 1963 became a freelance translator and writer.[2]Hiob first married folklorist and literary scholar Heldur Niit in 1949. They had one son, noted psychologist Toomas Niit, in 1953. The couple divorced in 1958, the same year she wed writer Jaan Kross; their children are Maarja Undusk (born 1959), Eerik-Niiles Kross (born 1967) and M\u00e4rten Kross (1970).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Selected works[edit]Poetry books[edit]Kuidas leiti n\u00e4\u00e4ripuu (Finding the Christmas Tree), Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1954; Mixi kirjastus 2000; Tammerraamat 2013Rongis\u00f5it (The Train Ride), Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1957; Tammerraamat, 2013Karud saavad aru (The Bears Will Understand), Eesti Raamat 1967, 1971, 1972; Eesti P\u00e4evaleht 2010Lahtiste uste p\u00e4ev (Open Door Day), Eesti Raamat 1970Suur maalrit\u00f6\u00f6 (Colouring the World), Eesti Raamat 1971, 1985; Elmatar 2008; Tammerraamat 2015; A Film Eesti & Tammerraamat 2014Midrimaa (Wonderland), Eesti Raamat 1974Kr\u00f5lli-raamat (The Book of Kr\u00f5ll), Eesti Raamat 1979Oma olemine, turteltulemine (One’s Own Beings and Comings), Eesti Raamat 1979Filmikr\u00f5ll (Nippet), Perioodika 1980Suur suislepapuu (A Huge Apple Tree), Eesti Raamat 1983Meil maal (At Our Farm), Eesti Raamat 1985Tere, tere, lambatall! (Hello There, Little Lamb!), 1993Kuidas Kr\u00f5ll tahtis p\u00f5randat pesta (How Kr\u00f5ll Tried to Mop the Floor), 1993Kr\u00f5lli pannkoogitegu (Kr\u00f5ll Makes Pancakes), Elmatar 1995\u00dchel viivul vikervalgel (At a Rainbow-Light Moment), Tiritamm 1999Kaelasall p\u00e4kapikule (A Scarf for a Dwarf), Huma 2000Veel ja veel. Kr\u00f5lliga maal ja veel (More and More. On Land and Water with Kr\u00f5ll), Elmatar 2002Taeva v\u00f5ti: luulet lastele 1954\u20132008 (The Key of Heaven), Tammerraamat 2012M\u00e4nguvesi (Playing With Water), Tammerraamat 2013Prose[edit]Pille-Riini lood (Pille-Riin’s Stories), Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1963; Eesti Raamat 1971; Tiritam, 2003; TEA Kirjastus 2008, 2013; Tammerraamat 2013Jutt j\u00e4nesepojast, kes ei tahtnud magama j\u00e4\u00e4da (The Story of the Bunny Who Didn’t Want to Fall Asleep), Eesti Raamat 1967, 1970; Tiritamm 2007; Tammerraamat 2018Triinu ja Taavi jutud (Stories about Triinu and Taavi), Eesti Raamat 1970Triinu ja Taavi uued ja vanad lood (Triinu’s and Taavi’s New and Old Tales), Eesti Raamat 1977; TEA Kirjastus 2007, 2013, Tammerraamat 2017Ott kosmoses (Ott’s Adventures in Space), Perioodika 1979J\u00e4nesepoja \u00f5htu koos isaga (The Little Bunny’s Night with Father), Perioodika 1982Onu \u00d6\u00f6biku \u00f6\u00f6p\u00e4ev (Mr. Nightingale’s Twenty-Four Hours), Tiritamm 1998Onu \u00d6\u00f6bik \u00d6\u00f6sorri t\u00e4navast (Mr. Nightingale from Nightjar Street), Tammerraamat 2017Awards and honors[edit]1971 Juhan Smuul Annual Prize of Literature (Open Door Day)1977 Honored Writer of the Estonian SSR1978 Juhan Smuul Annual Prize of Literature (Triinu ja Taavi uued ja vanad lood)1994 Karl Eduard S\u00f6\u00f6t Children’s Poetry Award (Hello There, Little Lamb!, How Kr\u00f5ll Tried to Mop the Floor)1996 IBBY Honour List (Kr\u00f5ll Makes Pancakes)1999 Annual Children’s Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (At a Rainbow-Light Moment)1999 Order of the White Star, III Class2005 Lifetime achievement award from the E. W. Ponkala Fund for furthering cultural relations between Finland, Estonia, and Hungary2009 Estonian State Cultural Award2010 Tallinn Coat of Arms Badge2004\u20132009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award candidate2018 The White Ravens (Mr. Nightingale from Nightjar Street)References[edit]^ “Ellen Niit”. Estonian Children’s Literature Centre. Retrieved 28 August 2019.^ “Ellen Niit”. Estonian Literature Centre. Retrieved 28 August 2019.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/ellen-niit-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Ellen Niit – Wikipedia"}}]}]