Linards Tauns

Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš, who took the name Linards Tauns, was born on 13 October 1922 in Ragaciems, in the Tukums district, and grew up in Anniņmuiža, in the Pārdaugava district of Riga. He left for Germany in 1944, published a first poem in 1946, arrived in New York in 1950, where he became a typesetter and an editor of Latvju Žurnāls, and with Gunārs Saliņš brought together the poets and painters of the Elles ķēķis circle. He died in New York on 30 July 1963, aged forty.

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• PoetryMūžīgais mākonisLinards Tauns · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature