Latvian Writer
1. Krišjānis Barons (1835)
Latvian Writer
A Latvian author of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he is best known for organizing and categorizing Latvian folk songs and publishig the songs' texts in Latvju dainas.
2. Atis Kronvalds (1837)
Latvian Writer
A nineteenth-century writer and linguist, he was also a prominent member of the Young Latvia movement. He penned the movement's manifesto, Nationale Bestrebungen, in 1872.
3. Rainis (1865)
Latvian Writer
Latvian poet, playwright, and politician who is known for the classic plays Uguns un nakts in 1905 and Indulis un Ārija in 1911.
4. Zenta Mauriņa (1897)
Latvian Writer
The Latvian author of Heart Mosaic (essays), In the beginning, was joy (short stories), and The Long Journey (memoir), she was also a prominent philologist and biographer. She published her...
5. Vizma Belševica (1931)
Latvian Writer
A Latvian poet, author, and translator of the Twentieth Century, she is best known for such poetry collections as The Sea is Burning and Annual Rings. Her short story collections...
6. Krišjānis Valdemārs (1825)
Latvian Writer
Krišjānis Valdemārs – December 7 1891 in Moscow Russia) was a writer editor educator politician lexicographer folklorist and economist the spiritual leader of the first Latvian National Awakening and...
7. Kārlis Skalbe (1879)
Latvian Writer
Kārlis Skalbe was a Latvian writer poet and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King...
8. Andrejs Upīts (1877)
Latvian Writer
Andrejs Upīts was a Latvian teacher poet short story writer and Communist polemicist.
9. Linards Tauns (1922)
Latvian Writer
Linards Tauns was a Latvian writer. He was one of the immigrant artists who formed the Hell's Kitchen school of art among Latvian immigrants in New York.
10. Leons Briedis (1949)
Latvian Writer
Leons Briedis is a Latvian poet a novelist an essayist a literary critic and publisher translator of prose and poetry from Latin Russian English Romance languages Swahili Albanian a. o....
11. Knuts Skujenieks (1936)
Latvian Writer
Knuts Skujenieks is a Latvian poet journalist and translator from fifteen European languages. He spent his childhood near Bauska Zemgale. Skujenieks later studied at University of Latvia in Riga and...
12. Māra Zālīte (1952)
Latvian Writer
Māra Zālīte is a Latvian writer.
13. Jānis Medenis (1903)
Latvian Writer
Jānis Medenis was a Latvian poet and writer. In 1948 he was convicted of anti-Soviet activities and imprisoned in the Norillag camp later in Irkutsk Oblast until 1955.
14. Jānis Sudrabkalns (1894)
Latvian Writer
Jānis Sudrabkalns born Arvīds Peine was a Latvian poet and writer.
15. Ojārs Vācietis (1933)
Latvian Writer
Ojārs Vācietis was a Latvian writer.
16. Klāvs Elsbergs (1959)
Latvian Writer
Klāvs Elsbergs was a Latvian poet and translator. He was the son of Latvian poet Vizma Belševica.
17. Aspazija (1865)
Latvian Writer
Aspazija was the pen name of Elza Pliekšāne a Latvian poet and playwright. Aspazija is the Latvian transliteration of Aspasia.
18. Konstantīns Raudive (Unknow)
Latvian Writer
Konstantīns Raudive was a Latvian writer and intellectual and husband of Zenta Mauriņa. Raudive was born in Latgale in eastern Latvia but studied extensively abroad later becoming a student of...
