Madis Koiv

ABOUT MADIS KOIV

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.

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

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

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

He was a contemporary of American writer Joseph Heller .