# Helju Rebane
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{{Short description|Estonian writer}}
thumb|Helju Rebane in 2019
'''Helju Rebane''' (born 18 July 1948) is an [Estonia](/source/Estonia)n writer. She writes mainly prose and [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) in the Estonian and Russian languages.[{{cite web |title=Helju Rebane |url=https://sisu.ut.ee/ewod/r/heljurebane |website=sisu.ut.ee |access-date=20 February 2022 |language=en}}]
She was born in [Tallinn](/source/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](/source/Karl_Rebane), physicist {{Interlanguage link|Toomas Rebane|et}}, and mathematician {{Interlanguage link|Jüri Rebane|et}}. She graduated from [Tartu State University Tartu](/source/University_of_Tartu) with a degree in [theoretical mathematics](/source/Pure_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](/source/Moscow_University).[{{Cite book|title=Eesti kirjarahva leksikon|last=Kruus|first=Oskar|date=1995|publisher=[Eesti Raamat](/source/Eesti_Raamat)|location=Tallinn|isbn=9785450023571|language=et}}]
Rebane made her writing debut in the journal ''[Looming](/source/Looming_(magazine))'' in 1981 with the story ''Väike kohvik''. In 1983 she won a prize in the story competition run by the literary journal ''Noorus''.