The Man Who Spoke Snakish
AuthorAndrus Kivirähk
Original titleMees, kes teadis ussisõnu
IllustratorAndres Rõhu
Country Estonia
LanguageEstonian
Published2007 (Eesti Keele Sihtasutus)
Media typePrint, Audio
Pages381
ISBN978-9985-79-178-3

The Man Who Spoke Snakish (Estonian: Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu) is a novel by Estonian author Andrus Kivirähk.[1] It was first published in 2007. In 2008 an audiobook was published, read by the Estonian actor Tiit Sukk.[2] The novel was awarded the Stalker award of Estonian science fiction in 2008.[3]

The novel has been translated into English (2015), as well as Czech (2011), Latvian (2011), French (as L'Homme qui savait la langue des serpents, 2013), Russian (2014), Danish (2015), Dutch (2015), Hungarian (2015), Spanish (2017), German (2017), Macedonian (2019), Lithuanian (2020)[4] and Polish (2020).[5] In 2009 a board game with the same name was released by the game developer Revaler in cooperation with the newspaper Eesti Päevaleht.[6] It is set in an imaginary Estonia during the Middle Ages.

The French translation was awarded the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for the best foreign-language novel in 2014.

The protagonist is Leemet, an Estonian who is part of a diminishing group of forest-dwellers, upholding ancient traditions and speaking the ancient "snake-tongue" which lets them control animals and speak with snakes.

References

  1. ↑ "Estonian Literature". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-03.
  2. ↑ ESTER catalogue
  3. ↑ Stalker Award for Science Fiction 2008. Estonian Literature Centre.
  4. ↑ "Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu at the Estonian Literature Center".
  5. ↑ Kivirähk, Andrus (2020). Człowiek, który znał mowę węży (in Polish). Translated by Michalczuk, Anna (I ed.). Gdańsk: Marpress. ISBN 978-83-7528-198-9.
  6. ↑ "Mees, kes teadis ussisõnu (2009)". BoardGameGeek.


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