Leons Briedis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leons Briedis

Latvian writer

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1949

Place of Birth: Madona District, Latvia

Profession: writer, poet, translator, novelist

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Leons Briedis (born December 16, 1949 in Madona District, Soviet Union) is a Latvian poet, a novelist, an essayist, a literary critic and publisher, translator of prose and poetry from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages (Romanian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Rhaeto-Romanic), Swahili (of Bantu peoples), Albanian and other languages.
He is also an author of several musicals produced on the radio and staged at the biggest theatres in Latvia, script writer (author of several scripts, one short-length film is produced), has written much for children (poems, prose, plays), author of song texts (in collaboration with the componist Raimonds Pauls texts for appr.
150 songs), has translated 10 plays staged at Latvian theatres and rendered in verse opera librettos (e.g., the opera by B.
Britten "The Small Chimney-Sweep").