Ojārs Vācietis

Ojārs Vācietis was born on 13 November 1933 in the parish of Trapene, into a family of farm servants. He published his first poem in 1950 in a district newspaper, finished school in Gaujiena and studied Latvian language and literature at the University of Riga from 1952 to 1957. He worked for reviews, at the Riga film studio, then at the review Draugs from 1968 until his death. Married in 1956 to the poet Ludmila Azarova, and translator of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, he died in Riga on 28 November 1983.

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• PoetryElpaOjārs Vācietis · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature