Cornelius Theodor Hasselblatt (1960) is a German specialist in Finno-Ugric studies, translator of Estonian literature, and Estophile living in the Netherlands. He studied history, literature, and Finno-Ugric languages and culture in Hamburg and Helsinki (1980-1986) and defended his doctoral degree in 1990. From 1998-2014, Hasselblatt was a professor of Finno-Ugric languages and culture at the University of Groningen. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Tartu and is a foreign member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

The (frequent) strength of Estonian children’s literature is that it surprises with its unconventionality.