In the Soviet Latvia, Belševica was among When she started to find her own inner form of expression after inner (The Whole Year Nothing But Spring), was published in 1955, but it was not until Jura deg (1966), She took luminal pills andīelševica's first collection, Visu ziemu šogad pavasaris Belševica's world view was shattered in 1956īy Khrushchev's famous speech, in which he denounced In some of herĮarly poems, she praised the Soviet Union, willingly, believing in its During this period she came to know Bella Akhmadulina, Yuri Vocational school and technicum, Belševica entered inġ955 the Gorky Institute in Moscow, finishing her literary studies inġ961. Her literary debut as a poet Belševica made in 1947 with the poem 'Zemes atmoda,' which appeared in the daily newspaper Padomju Jaunatne (Soviet Youth). Germany occupied the country from 1941 but the USSR regained controlġ944. Latvia was incorporatedĪs a constituent republic of the USSR in 1940. Was an active member of the Komsomol (Communist Youth League),īut she was scolded by her comrades for penning verses which did notĭeal with the building of a communist society. Mother emotionally cold. During her adolescent years, Belševica Her memoirs Belševica told that her father was an alcoholic and her Northern Courland (Kurzeme), where she became intrested in writing. Grew up in Riga and in rural environment in Ugāle, The family lived in a poor section of the capital city. Vizma Belševica was born in Riga of working-class parents. Margins of the Livonian Chronicle', translated by Baiba Kaugara) (from 'The Notations of Henricus de Lettis in the Own country "the conscience of her time and her nation." Vizma Belševica wasįrequently mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Latvian poet, essayist, translator and novelist, called in her A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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