Ilmar Taska Author

Ilmar Taska is best known in his native Estonia as a film director and producer, and for founding a national television network in Estonia, Kanal 2. Pobeda 1946: A Car Called Victory is his first full novel, and is based on a prize-winning short story from 2014. This novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and the first years of the Soviet occupation of Estonia and the Baltic countries, quickly became a best-seller, dealing with issues that are still sensitive for generations of Estonians seventy years later. It is a thrilling, fast-paced novel of suspicion, intrigue and the betrayal of trust in a burgeoning totalitarian society, and much of it is based on events in the life of the author and his family.