Jaan Kaplinski is married with Tiia Toomet, who is also a writer, and at present the director of Tartu Toy Museum . From former marriage with Küllike Kaplinski Jaan has a daughter Maarja Kaplinski (born 1964). Jaan also has a son Märt-Matis Lill (born 1975), who is studying composition and musicology in Helsinki. Märt is married to Liina Soonsein and they have two sons - Oliver (born 1995) and Markos (born 1999).
Jaan and Tiia have three sons: Ott-Siim Toomet (born 1970), Lauris Kaplinski (born 1971) and Lemmit Toomet (s. 1980) and a daughter Elo-Mall Toomet (born 1981). Ott-Siim has master's degrees in physics and economics. Actually he is preparing his PhD in Aarhus, Denmark. Lauris has studied biochemistry, but at present he is working as a Linux- developer, mainly for the Boston-based firm Ximian. Lemmit is a student of philology, just now he is too working as an IT-technician in the Tartu Art College. He is also writing poems.
Maarja is working with psychodrama, and has got an assistant's diploma in this field.
Lauris is married from 1991 to Kersti Orav (now Kersti Kaplinski). They have three children: Minea (1991), Jerzy-Edvard (1995) and Karl Aleksander (2000).
|
On the stairs of Vana-Mutiku 1997 |
||
|
One the most important places for our family is Mutiku (nowadays officially Vana-Mutiku, i.e. Old-Mutiku), an old farmhouse in the Kõlleste county in Põlvamaa that is in our possession from 1970 on. Jaan has created there a small park, some ponds have been dug where one can also swim. We have a potato plot and a vegetable orchard, some current bushes and apple trees, and some meadowland that is every summer mown by Jaan and Ott. We have also a sauna with a small bedroom, an outhouse, a granary, two small huts a lot of living space for us all and for our guests. One member of the family is also a young female cat Murjam. Mutiku is officially a farm with about 15 hectares of land, mostly marshy bushland with birches and alders, but also some nice hillocks with mighty old trees and a strip of pine forest. A couple of hectares of mrashland and a hillock there are a nature reserve where everything grows and decays without our interference. The forest gives us enough firewood and building material for the house. |
||
|
Elo-Mall, Lemmit, Tiia and Maarja in Tartu 2000 |
Tiia, Lemmit and Elo-Mall at the time of the singing revolution 1988 |
|
|
Lemmit finishes his school 1998 |
Lemmit, Marge and Miia in summer 2001 |
|
|
Lemmit and Lauris are now living in the 'Kallaste' house outside Tartu. Lemmit has been joined by Marge Nelk and her four-year-old daughter Miia. The house has been built i 1914 by the well-known Finnish-Estonian writer Aino Kallas and her husband, philologist and diplomat Oskar Kallas. |
||
|
Lauris with his family in summer 2001 |
||
|
|
||
Helo Sööt in December 2001 |
||
|
25. septembril 2001 we were joined by Helo Sööt, the daughter of Elo-Mall and Jaan Sööt |
||
