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Vizma Belševica

Died in 2005

Vizma Belševica was born in Riga on 30 May 1931 into a poor working-class family. She published her first poems in 1947 and her first book in 1955, and also became a translator. Banned from publishing from 1971 to 1974, she had her apartment searched by the political police. Mother of the writers Klāvs and Jānis Elsbergs, nominated several times for the Nobel Prize, and elected an honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences in 1990, she died in Riga on 6 August 2005.

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