Mirdza Bendrupe

Mirdza Bendrupe was born on 23 October 1910 in Čūkšļi, the daughter of a peasant imprisoned in Jelgava for his part in the revolution of 1905 and of Emīlija Bendrupe, a schoolteacher and writer. She published her first poem on 14 September 1926 in Jaunākās Ziņas, married the painter Jānis Skučs in 1936 and separated from him in 1939. Chief editor at the Riga film studio in 1947, she translated dubbing texts, Pushkin and Lermontov, lived in Crimea from 1965 to 1976 and died in Riga on 30 July 1995.

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• Short storiesMajestāte un pērtiķisMirdza Bendrupe · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature