August Jakobson was an Estonian writer and politician. He was one of the few Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states. He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama. In the 1960s his work was described as "ideologically militant".
- Occupation
- writer, politician, short story writer
- Position held
- deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Citizenship
- Estonia, Soviet Union
- Born
- August 20, 1904
