Eriks Ādamsons

Eriks Ādamsons

Eriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on June 22, 1907. In 1926 he entered the University of Latvia to study law. He made his first publication in 1924. In the 1930s he fully devoted himself to literature. Ādamsons also worked as translator (he spoke, in addition to his native Latvian, Russian, German, English and French). He married young Latvian writer Mirdza Ķempe in 1931, but their marriage broke apart shortly before WWII.

In the years of the German occupation he worked in a book store and also in lumbering. His works was banned by the German authorities, so he published under a pseudonym - Eriks Rīga. In those years his health declined and he caught tubercolosis. In 1943 he began collecting materials for a book about Kārlis Padegs, a Latvian

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