This week, the Estonian Union of Writers, which unites writers, translators of fiction, literary critics and scholars, is celebrating its 100th anniversary, which currently has 336 members both in Estonia and abroad.
Originally named the Estonian Writers' Union, the professional association was founded on October 8, 1922 in Tallinn Tallinn, the largest city and capital of Estonia (population 440 000). City Hall, its first chairman was Friedebert Tuglas. At the time of its founding, there were 33 members in 1940. By the year, the membership of the union had grown to 53 people. The Union continued to operate under different names in occupied Estonia, while Estonian writers who emigrated to the West organized themselves abroad, and in December 1945, the Foreign Estonian Writers' Union was born in Stockholm, which was merged with the domestic one ten years after Estonia regained its independence.