Knuts Skujenieks

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

His childhood was spent in Skujenieks Bauska in südlettischen Semgallen. Later he studied at the University of Latvia in Riga and at the Maxim Gorki Institute in Moscow. In 1962 he was convicted of " anti-Soviet propaganda " and had to stay in a prison camp in Mordovia seven years; his first book of poetry he could publish until 1978. On June 6, 1989 he was rehabilitated. In 1998, he shared with Vizma Belševica the first ever in this year Tomas Tranströmer Prize.

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