Madis Koiv

About

Also a novelist, short story writer, and physicist, he is best known as the premiere Estonian playwright of the mid-Twentieth Century. His popular dramas include Scenes From the Hundred Years' War, Return to Father, and The Philosopher's Day.

Before Fame

He won the 1993 Tuglas Award for The Life of an Eternal Physicus.

Trivia

His notable novels include Widow and Aporia of Attica, Tragedy of Elea.

Family Life

He was raised in Tartu, Estonia. In the early 1950s, he graduated from an Estonian university with a degree in nuclear physics.

Associated With

He was a contemporary of American writer Joseph Heller.