Urve Karuks

Urve Karuks (née Ambos, later changed to Aasoja; 18 January 1936 – 18 July 2015) was a Canadian-Estonian poet and translator. She was known for her contribution to exile literature and was a member of the Foreign Estonian Writers' Union and the Estonian PEN-Club.

Biography Karuks was born on 18 January 1936 in Tallinn, Estonia. She had a brother named Ülo. In 1944, during World War II, Karuks fled to Germany with her remaining family, where she lived in refugee camps in Stubben, Schwarzenbek and Lingen. She began her education in the refugee camps and started writing poetry at age 12.

In 1951, Karuks and her family emigrated to Toronto, Canada.

Karuks published her first poems in the literary journal Mana in 1964. She wrote in Estonian, English and German

Karuks received the Literary Prize of Canadian Estonians in 1969 Laotusse lendama laukast (1992)