Anna Brigadere


Anna Brigadere was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia.

Biography

Her first story was published in 1896. In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlina was published. Six years later, her first and most popular play Sprīdītis/The Tale of Sprīdītis was written for the Riga Latvian Theatre director Jēkabs Duburs who staged the play in 1903. In 1985, the story was adapted for cinema, translated in several languages. World War I would lead her to emigrate to Moscow. In 1918 she returned to Riga and continued there her literary creation.

Works

She wrote comedy and drama, among which The Tale of Sprīdītis, a young boy from a Latvian peasant family and his fantastic adventures in a nearby forest. She also wrote four autobiographies, among which Dievs, daba, darbs about the life of a Latvian woman in the late 19th century.

Awards and honors