Lehte Hainsalu

Lehte Hainsalu (born 31 October 1938, Haaslava Parish, Tartu County) is an Estonian writer, poet and politician.
In 1961 she graduated from Tartu State University, studied Estonian philology. After graduation, she worked at the newspaper Edasi, at the Tartu Widget Factory (), and at Estonian Television studio in Tartu.
From 1981 to 1990, she was the head of Tartu division of Estonian Writers' Union.
In 1980, she signed in Letter of 40 intellectuals.
She has won many awards, e.g. Tuglas Short Story Prize (1987), the Karl Eduard Sööt Prize for Children's Poetry (1992, 2015).