Mārtiņš Zīverts

Mārtiņš Zīverts was born in 1903 in Zemgale, in the parish of Vilce. After finishing at the Jelgava gymnasium in 1924, he spent time at the University of Rome, then studied philosophy at the University of Latvia, wrote for the newspaper Jaunais Zemgalietis and worked at the psychotechnical institute in Riga. Dramaturge of the National Theatre from 1938 to 1940, then of the Dailes teātris until 1944, he then made his way to Sweden, where he earned his living by hard labour, chaired the Latvian PEN centre in exile and wrote in all more than fifty plays. He died in Stockholm on 4 October 1990.

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• TheatreVaraMārtiņš Zīverts · 1944not translated into EnglishLiterature