Jaak Tomberg
Jaak Tomberg | |
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Tomberg at the Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead (2014) | |
| Born | 30 June 1980 Tartu, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Awards | SFRA Innovative Research Award (2014); University of Tartu Medal (2023); Estonian Cultural Endowment Literature Prize (essayistics, 2023 works; awarded 2024) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Tartu |
| Thesis | Kirjanduse lepitav otstarve (“The conciliatory purpose of literature”) (2009) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jüri Talvet; Jüri Lipping |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literary theory; science fiction studies |
| Institutions | University of Tartu; Estonian Literary Museum |
Jaak Tomberg (born 30 June 1980) is an Estonian literary scholar and literary critic whose work focuses on literary theory and science fiction studies. He has been affiliated with the University of Tartu, and previously worked at the Estonian Literary Museum.
In 2014, Tomberg received the Science Fiction Research Association’s annual award for best critical essay-length work (then called the SFRA Pioneer Award, now the SFRA Innovative Research Award) for his article on realism and science-fictional estrangement in William Gibson’s Bigend trilogy.