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Edvarts Virza

Died in 1940

Jēkabs Eduards Liekna, known as Edvarts Virza, was born on 27 December 1883 in Zemgale, the eldest of the nine children of a well-off farmer. After the school in Bauska, he took law courses in Moscow from 1904. A Latvian rifleman in 1916, he then worked in newspaper offices, at the radio and in the arts department of the Ministry of Education, married the translator Elza Stērste in 1920 and completed Straumēni in 1933. The favourite poet of Kārlis Ulmanis after 1934, he died in Riga on 1 March 1940; his work was banned in Soviet Latvia until 1985.

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