Anne Lill

Anne Lill (née Laansoo; born 15 October 1946) is an Estonian classical philologist and translator. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tartu.

Education Anne Laansoo was born on 15 October 1946. She graduated from University of Tartu in 1970. From 1976 to 1978 she was a postgraduate student at Leningrad State University. From 1992 to 2012 she was a Professor of Classical Philology; since 16 April 2012 Lill has been Professor Emeritus.

Lill has supervised many students, including legal scholar . She has published widely and translated several classical authors, including: Aristophanes, Euripides, Aristotle, Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, Apuleius. She has published on Horace's Carpe Diem, as well as the concept of the symposium in Latin and Greek literature. She has translated German and Russian texts to Estonian, including those of Freud, Nietzsche and Stolovich. Man and the World in Greek Tragedy (Tartu, 2008)

Awards 2001 - Order of the White Star, Class V. 2013 - Aleksander Kurtna Award.

Personal life Anne Lill's father was noted violinist and guitarist Emil Laansoo. She had a previous relationship with writer, poet, translator, cultural critic and philosopher Jaan Kaplinski, with whom she has a son, composer Märt-Matis Lill, born in 1975.