Aleksandrs Čaks

Aleksandrs Čadarainis, known as Aleksandrs Čaks, was born in Riga on 27 October 1901, into a tailor's family. Evacuated during the war to Estonia and then to Russia, he trained as a medical assistant in Penza and worked in a hospital there in 1919 and 1920. Back in 1922, he became the poet of Riga's urban life, its nights, its poor suburbs and its homeless, and with Ēriks Ādamsons translated Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. Attacked from 1946 and dismissed from the newspaper Cīņa in 1947, he died in Riga on 8 February 1950.

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• EpicMūžības skartieAleksandrs Čaks · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature