Uldis Bērziņš

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Uldis Bērziņš (born May 17, 1944 in Riga) is a Latvian poet and translator.

He studied Latvian philology at the University of Latvia and published his first collection of poetry in 1980. Bērziņš studied Turkish in Leningrad University Oriental Studies Department (from 1968 to 1971), and also studied in the Asian and African Studies section of Moscow State University (concentrating on Persian and Turkish), at Tashkent State University (Uzbek), Reykjavik University (Icelandic), as well as in Czechoslovakia, Sweden and other countries.

Bērziņš has taken part in the international Bible translation seminar at the Amsterdam Open University and Lund University forum over questions regarding Koran translations.^[1] From 2002 on he has been teaching Turkish at the Modern Languages Department of the University of Latvia.^[2]

Bērziņš' poetry has been translated into German, Swedish, Estonian and Lithuanian.

Awards: Three Star Order (1995), Zinaida Lazda Award (1994), the Baltic Assembly Award (1995) and the Spidola Award (2000).

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Poetry

Maijs debešos ["May in the Heavens"], Riga: Preses Nams (2002)
Daugavmala ["The Daugava’s Edge"], Riga: Nordik (1999)
Nozagtie velosipēdi ["Stolen Bicycles"], Riga: Minerva, (1999)
Kukaiņu soļi ["The Footsteps of Insects"], Riga: Rainis and Aspazija Foundation (1994)
Laiks ["Time"; with Juris Kronbergs], Riga: Zinātne (1994)
Nenotikušie atentāti ["Assassinations That Never Happened"], Riga: Liesma (1990)
Poētisms baltkrievs ["Belarusian Poetics"], Riga: Liesma (1984)
Piemineklis kazai ["Monument to a Goat"], Riga: Liesma (1980)