Kalju Lepik

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title: Kalju Lepik
text: Kalju Lepik was an Estonian poet who lived as an exile for most of his life. Lepik published his first poems in 1939 in Tartu students' journals Iloli and Tuleviku Rajad. In 1940 he founded the art society Tuulisui, that continued its existence in Swedish exile from 1945 on. In 1943 and 1944 he fought as a conscript in the Waffen-SS unit Estonian Legion. He became a refugee in 1944 and settled in Stockholm for many years. Lepik consistently defended the rights of the Estonian refugees in Sweden.
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description: Estonian poet (1920–1999)
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