Ilvi Liive-Roosipuu built up the Estonian Literature Centre in 2001, and has been running it since then. She has been working as publisher and literary translator from Dutch and German into Estonian. She was Head of the Estonian market focus programme at the London Book Fair and the Estonian Literature Festival EstLitFest in 2018. She is member of the literary translators’ division of the Estonian Writers’ Union since 2012 and the advisory committee of the Estonian Literary Magazine.