Juris Kronbergs | Latvia<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>(9 August 1946 \u2013 6 July 2020)\u00a0 – a Latvian poet and translator.\u00a0 He was born in 1946 in Stockholm in the family of the painter <\/span>R\u016bdolfs Kronbergs (in 1945 Kronbergs\u2019 parents emigrated to Sweden to escape Soviet occupation). He studied Scandinavian and Baltic languages as well as the history of literature at the University of Stockholm. He debuted in the mid-1960. His works veered between two cultures – Swedish and Latvian. His translations of 20th and 21st century literature include selected poems by the\u00a0 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Transtr\u00f6mer and Ulf Eriksson\u2019s novel Creatures of Glass \/ Varelser av glas (Janis Roze, 2010). In the 1960s and 70s he worked as a cashier in the Stockholm underground\u00a0 and was a member of many rock bands. His first collection of poetry was titled \u201cPazemes dzeja\u201d and was published in the form of sheets and posters. Kronberg\u2019s work has become one of the best examples of rebellion in Latvian literature of the 1960s. He was a chairman of the Latvian PEN Club, worked as an interpreter for the Swedish parliament and served as a cultural attache at the Latvian embassy in Stockholm. One of his most popular and most widely praised works is the series of poems \u201cVilks Vienacis\u201d which has been translated into Estonian, Swedish, and English. The original, Latvian version was awarded the Latvian Writers’ Union Prize in 1997 and published in Latvia and Sweden as a voice recording featuring music by Kristap Grasi. Kronbergs was a member of the Latvian Writers\u2019 Union and a honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Together with the Norwegian poet Odeen Abrahamsent he also compiled an anthology of Latvian poetry that he translated into Norwegian.His translation of selected Swedish poems \u201cMani zviedri\u201d were published in Latvia. Kronbergs received several important\u00a0 literary awards: Aleksander Caks Literary Award (2005), the Latvian Order of the Three Stars (1998) and the Swedish Order of the North Star.\u00a0 He passed away on 6 July 2020 while the work on the collection \u201cWszystkie ptaki, co we mnie\u2026\u201d was underway.\u00a0<\/span>
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(9 August 1946 \u2013 6 July 2020)\u00a0 – a Latvian poet and translator.\u00a0 He was born in 1946 in Stockholm in the family of the painter <\/span>R\u016bdolfs Kronbergs (in 1945 Kronbergs\u2019 parents emigrated to Sweden to escape Soviet occupation). He studied Scandinavian and Baltic languages as well as the history of literature at the University of Stockholm. He debuted in the mid-1960. His works veered between two cultures – Swedish and Latvian. His translations of 20th and 21st century literature include selected poems by the\u00a0 Nobel Prize winner Thomas Transtr\u00f6mer and Ulf Eriksson\u2019s novel Creatures of Glass \/ Varelser av glas (Janis Roze, 2010). In the 1960s and 70s he worked as a cashier in the Stockholm underground\u00a0 and was a member of many rock bands. His first collection of poetry was titled \u201cPazemes dzeja\u201d and was published in the form of sheets and posters. Kronberg\u2019s work has become one of the best examples of rebellion in Latvian literature of the 1960s. He was a chairman of the Latvian PEN Club, worked as an interpreter for the Swedish parliament and served as a cultural attache at the Latvian embassy in Stockholm. One of his most popular and most widely praised works is the series of poems \u201cVilks Vienacis\u201d which has been translated into Estonian, Swedish, and English. The original, Latvian version was awarded the Latvian Writers’ Union Prize in 1997 and published in Latvia and Sweden as a voice recording featuring music by Kristap Grasi. Kronbergs was a member of the Latvian Writers\u2019 Union and a honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Together with the Norwegian poet Odeen Abrahamsent he also compiled an anthology of Latvian poetry that he translated into Norwegian.His translation of selected Swedish poems \u201cMani zviedri\u201d were published in Latvia. Kronbergs received several important\u00a0 literary awards: Aleksander Caks Literary Award (2005), the Latvian Order of the Three Stars (1998) and the Swedish Order of the North Star.\u00a0 He passed away on 6 July 2020 while the work on the collection \u201cWszystkie ptaki, co we mnie\u2026\u201d was underway.\u00a0<\/span>
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