Astrīde Ivaska

Astrīde Hartmane was born in Riga on 7 August 1926, the daughter of General Mārtiņš Hartmanis. A refugee in Germany with her family in 1944, she studied Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages at the University of Marburg, where in 1949 she married the Estonian poet and critic Ivar Ivask. The couple lived in the United States from 1949 to 1991, in Minnesota and then in Oklahoma, before settling in Ireland. Astrīde Ivaska returned to Riga in 2001 and died there on 24 March 2015.

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• PoetryEzera kristībasAstrīde Ivaska · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature