Kārlis Skalbe

Kārlis Skalbe was born on 7 November 1879 in the parish of Vecpiebalga, the last of the ten children of the blacksmith Jānis, who died when he was eight. A shepherd for four summers and a pupil at the schools of Veļķe and Vecpiebalga, he taught from 1901, edited the journal Kāvi during the revolution of 1905, then lived in Switzerland, Finland and Norway until 1909 and spent eighteen months in prison. A member of the People's Council, the Constituent Assembly and the Saeima, he went to Sweden in 1944 and died in Stockholm on 14 April 1945.

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• TaleZiemas pasakasKārlis Skalbe · 1913not translated into EnglishLiterature