Ēriks Ādamsons

Ēriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on 22 June 1907. He published from 1924, began studying law at the University of Latvia in 1926, then devoted himself entirely to literature in the thirties. Married in 1931 to the poet Mirdza Ķempe, from whom he separated shortly before the war, he married Elvīra Berta Padega, widow of the painter Kārlis Padegs, in 1944. A translator from Russian, German, English and French, under the German occupation he was a bookseller and a lumberjack, published under the name Eriks Rīga, and died in Riga on 28 February 1946.

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• Short storiesSmalkās kaitesĒriks Ādamsons · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature