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Andrejs Upīts

Died in 1970

Andrejs Upīts was born on 4 December 1877 at Kalniņi, in the parish of Skrīveri. After leaving the parish school, he taught himself German, Russian, English, French and Italian, and became a schoolteacher and translator. Having returned from Soviet Russia in 1920, he was arrested, threatened with death and saved by fellow writers. A deputy of the People's Saeima in 1940, vice-president of the Supreme Soviet of Soviet Latvia until 1952, he chaired the writers' union from 1944 to 1954, founded the Institute of Language and Literature and died in Riga on 17 November 1970.

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