Anu Saluäär

Anu Saluäär (née Vaher; legally Anu Saluäär-Kall since 2011; born 16 September 1948) is an Estonian translator, editor and essayist. She is best known for translating Scandinavian literature, especially Swedish literature, into Estonian and for her long editorial work with the literary series Loomingu Raamatukogu, where she worked from 1976 to 2018 and served as editor-in-chief from 2008 to 2013. Her honours include the Order of the White Star, 5th Class, the Vilhelm Moberg Society Prize, and the Edvin and Lembe Hiedel Editor's Award.

Early life and education Saluäär was born in Tallinn and was educated there before studying Estonian language and literature at Tartu State University, graduating in 1972. The Estonian Writers' Union describes the award more generally as one given for long-term, fruitful and notable editorial work in literature and intellectual history. Kronberg had earlier reviewed Saluäär's Rändamisest ja väljarändamisest as a literary travelogue following Vilhelm Moberg and his fictional emigrants through North America.

Among the authors Saluäär has translated are Ingmar Bergman, Vilhelm Moberg, Käbi Laretei, Ulla-Lena Lundberg, Theodor Kallifatides, Albert Engström and Agneta Pleijel.

In 2015 ERR reported that Saluäär regarded her nearly decade-long translation of Moberg's four-volume Emigrants cycle as her principal translation project. Her translation of Moberg's Sisserändajad won the Estonian Cultural Endowment's annual award for literary translation in 2005.

Saluäär's work has also been visible in Nordic literary exchange outside straightforward book translation. In 2013 Norden introduced her at Estonian events devoted to Ulla-Lena Lundberg's work, including the presentation of Siber: tiivuline autoportree. In 2021 ERR reported that Loomingu Raamatukogu had given Saluäär its annual prize for her translation of Engström's Moskoviidid.

She has also helped to present Estonian literature in Swedish translation. In 2007 she was one of the selectors of the anthology Estland berättar, and with Maarja Talgre she translated Jaak Jõerüüt into Swedish.

Honours and awards Estonian Writers' Union annual award (1990) Albert Engström, Moskoviidid (2020)