Knuts Skujenieks

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Knuts Skujenieks (born September 5, 1936 in Riga) is a Latvian poet, journalist, and translator from around fifteen European languages.

He spent his childhood near Bauska, Zemgale (Southern Latvia). Skujenieks later studied at University of Latvia in Riga and at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

In 1962, he was convicted of anti-Soviet activities, and sentenced to seven years in prison camp in Mordova, Russia. Although he was and is a prolific poet, he could publish his first collection of poetry only in 1978. The poems he wrote during his captivity were published in 1990. Skujenieks' poetry has been translated into many European languages; books of his poetry have been published in Sweden and Ukraine.

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Lirika un balsis (Lyrics and Voices; Riga, Liesma Publ., 1978),

Iesien baltā lakatiņā (Tie it into a White Cloth; Riga, Liesma Publ., 1986),

Sēkla sniegā (Seed in the Snow; Riga, Liesma Publ., 1990).