Knuts Skujenieks

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Birth Date:
05.09.1936
Death date:
24.07.2022
Burial date:
30.07.2022
Length of life:
85
Days since birth:
32197
Years since birth:
88
Days since death:
830
Years since death:
2
Person's maiden name:
Knuts Skujenieks
Extra names:
Кнутс Ску́ениекс
Categories:
Cross of Merit, Order of Latvian, Dissident, Order of the Three Stars (Latvia), Poet, Publicist, Translator, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime
Cemetery:
Rīgas Raiņa kapi

Knuts Skujenieks (5 September 1936 – 25 July 2022) was a Latvian poet, journalist, and translator from fifteen European languages.

He spent his childhood near Bauska in Zemgale. 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 a prison camp in Mordovia, Russia. Although he was a prolific poet, his first collection was only published 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. In 2008 he was awarded the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature.

In 2015, Film Director Ivars Tontegode was shooting a biographical documentary feature Knutification/Nepareizais about the life of Knuts Skujenieks.

Bibliography

  • 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)

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Emīls SkujenieksEmīls SkujenieksFather26.06.190311.06.1965
        2Marija SkujenieceMarija SkujenieceMother00.00.191026.04.1937
        3
        Leons SkujenieksBrother00.00.193400.00.1998
        4
        Zenta LūseAunt00.00.191421.11.1986
        5
        Juris SkujenieksGrandfather03.05.187823.01.1965
        6
        Anna SkujenieceGrandmother29.06.188228.09.1960

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