Andrejs Eglītis

Andrejs Eglītis was born on 21 October 1912 in Ļaudona, in Vidzeme, into a family of farmhands. After leaving the Riga State Technical School, he worked for the information service of Latvian radio, wrote in 1943 the text of the cantata Dievs, Tava zeme deg, set to music by Lūcija Garūta, and then followed the Latvian Legion as a war correspondent. Having gone to Sweden in May 1945, he founded the Latvian National Fund in Stockholm in 1947, returned to live in Riga in August 1998 and died there on 23 February 2006.

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• PoetryVaravīksnaAndrejs Eglītis · 1939not translated into EnglishLiterature