Jānis Veselis

Jānis Veselis was born on 1 April 1896 in the parish of Nereta, the son of a farmhand. Mobilised during the First World War, he then served in the Latvian army, published his first poem in April 1920 in Republikas Sargs and lived by his pen in Riga from 1921. An active member of the neopagan dievturi movement, an editor at the Latvju grāmata publishing house during the German occupation, he left for Germany in 1944, reached the United States in 1950, sold Latvian books door to door there and died in Milwaukee on 18 May 1962.

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• TaleLatvju teiksmasJānis Veselis · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature