Andrejs Upīts
| Andrejs Upīts | |
|---|---|
|
Andrejs Upīts | |
| Born |
4 December 1877 Skrīveri parish,  Russian Empire(now Latvia) |
| Died |
17 November 1970 (aged 92) Riga,  Latvian SSR(now Latvia) |
| Occupation | Poet, Writer |
| Nationality | Latvian |
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR)[1] was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer and Communist polemicist.
Literary activity
Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No. 15) and Kā mūsu senči agrāk Vidzemē dzīvojuši (How Our Ancestors Once Lived in Vidzeme) (No. 20). Upīts wrote novels, stories, drama, tragedy, comedy, poetry, satire, journalism, and literary criticism. His children's novel, Sūnu ciema zēni (The Boys of Moss Village), is included in the compulsory reading list of schools. He was one of the more multifaceted Latvian writers. Upīts' heroes possess striking character and he used a rich language.
His 1945 novel Zaļā zeme (The Green Land) received the USSR State Prize in 1946. His Sociālistiskā reālisma jautājumi literatūrā (Problems of Socialist Realism in Literature) won the Latvian SSR State Prize in 1957.
His works were banned twice: the first time after Kārlis Ulmanis' coup of 1934, and the second during the years of the Soviet regime, when his performance of his play, Ziedošais tuksnesis (The Blooming Desert) was prohibited at the Dailes Theatre and censors prohibited distribution of his book, Literatūras vēsture (The History of Literature).[2]
Significant works
Novels
- Jauni avoti (1909)
- Sieviete (1910)
- Zīda tīklā (1912)
- Pēdējais latvietis (1913)
- Zelts (1914)
- Renegāti (1915)
- Ziemeļa vējš (1921)
- Perkona pievārtē (1922)
- Pa varavīksnes tiltu (1926)
- Zem naglota papēža (1928)
- Jāņa Robežnieka nāve (1932)
- Vecās ēnas (1934)
- Zaļā zeme (1945)
- Plaisa mākoņos (1951)
Plays
- Dzimumdienas rītā (1905)
- Balss un atbalss / triloģija (1911)
- Žanna d'Arka (1930)
- Spartaks (1943)
- Ziņģu Ješkas uzvara (1933)
- Apburtais loks (1929)
- Mirabo (1926)
- Kaijas lidojums (1925)
- Peldētāja Zuzanna (1922)
Poetry
- Mazas drāmas (1911)
Prose
- Jauni avoti (1909)
- Sieviete (1910)
- Zīda tīklā (1912)
- Pēdējais latvietis (1913)
- Ziemeļa vējš (1921)
- Zelts (1921)
- Pērkona pievārtē (1922)
- Renegāti (1922)
- Pa varavīksnes tiltu (1926)
- Zem naglota papēža (1928)
- Jāņa Robežnieka pārnākšana (1932)
- Jāņa Robežnieka nāve (1933, Vecas ēnas (1934)
- Smaidoša lapa (1937)
- Laikmetu griežos (1937 1940)
- Māsas Ģertrūdes noslēpums (1939)
- Zaļā zeme (1945)
- Plaisa mākoņos (1951)
Short stories
- Mazas komēdijas (1-2) (1909 1910)
- Nemiers (1912)
- Vēju kauja (1920)
- Aiz paradīzes vārtiem (1922)
- Kailā dzīvība (1926)
- Stāsti par mācītājiem (1930)
- Sūnu ciema zēni / garstāsts jaunatnei (1940)
- Noveles (1943)
Partial bibliography
- McCall's: August 1964; Vol. XCI, No. 11 (featuring The Young Crane by Andrejs Upīts and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
- Outside Paradise and Other Stories (1970)
- Cause and effect (Soviet short stories) (1977)
- Selected stories (1978)
- Problems of Socialist Realism in Literature