Zinaīda Lazda

Zinaīda Šreibere, who wrote as Zinaīda Lazda, was born on 6 June 1902 at Tanuļi, in the parish of Ērgļi, to a farming family. A pupil at Natālija Draudziņa's secondary school in Riga, she studied Baltic philology at the University of Latvia and taught at the same school from 1927 to 1944. A refugee in Germany from December 1944, she taught at the Kārlis Skalbe secondary school in the Fischbach camp, reached the United States in 1950 and worked in Oregon as a nurse's aide and a domestic servant. She died on 7 November 1957; in accordance with her wish, her urn was lowered into the Baltic, off Gotland.

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• PoetryZaļie vārtiZinaīda Lazda · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature