{{Short description|Estonian writer}} thumb|Helju Rebane in 2019 '''Helju Rebane''' (born 18 July 1948) is an Estonian writer. She writes mainly prose and science fiction in the Estonian and Russian languages.<ref name="sisu.ut.ee">{{cite web |title=Helju Rebane |url=https://sisu.ut.ee/ewod/r/heljurebane |website=sisu.ut.ee |access-date=20 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
She was born in Tallinn. Her father was philosopher {{Interlanguage link|Jaan Rebane|et}} and her uncles were physicist and former president of the Academy of Sciences of the ESSR Karl Rebane, physicist {{Interlanguage link|Toomas Rebane|et}}, and mathematician {{Interlanguage link|Jüri Rebane|et}}. She graduated from Tartu State University Tartu with a degree in theoretical mathematics in 1971. From 1972 until 1973, she worked in the department of logic and psychology at the university. Later she studied logic at Moscow University.<ref name="sisu.ut.ee" /> In Moscow, she was as a lecturer at the Institute of Management Problems of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the USSR from 1974 until 1980, and as a senior engineer at the Ministry of Health Computing Center from 1981 until 1983.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Eesti kirjarahva leksikon|last=Kruus|first=Oskar|date=1995|publisher=Eesti Raamat|location=Tallinn|isbn=9785450023571|language=et}}</ref>
Rebane made her writing debut in the journal ''Looming'' in 1981 with the story ''Väike kohvik''. In 1983 she won a prize in the story competition run by the literary journal ''Noorus''.<ref name="sisu.ut.ee" />
==Works== * 1986 story "Väike kohvik". Eesti Raamat, 110 pp * 2011 "Город на Альтрусе: фантастическая повесть и рассказы". Воронеж, 2011. 207 pp * 2017 "50 рассказов". Москва: Ridero, 288 pp * 2017 "Кот в лабиринте: рассказы". Москва: Ridero, 207 pp * 2021 story "Õige valik". Fantaasia, 181 pp
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