Juris Kronbergs is a poet, free-lance journalist and translator. He
was born 1946 in Sweden, in a Latvian family. He studied Literature, Nordic
and Baltic languages at the University of Stockholm, as well as Theory
of Translation and 20th Century poetry at Cambridge, England. At the end
of the 1980s and the beginning of 1990s he worked in the Latvian section
of Radio Sweden, and as an interpreter for the Swedish Parliament, Government
and The Nordic Council of Ministers. For ten years he served as a diplomat
– as Cultural Attaché at the Latvian Embassy in Sweden. He has been
the President of the Latvian PEN centre. He is a honorary member of the
Latvian Academy of Science, has received the Latvian Three Star order,
the Swedish North Star order, several scholarships and prizes for poetry
and translation in Latvia and in Sweden, among them the prize for best
poetry collection of the year in Latvia (1997) for the collection Wolf
One-Eye. He has published ten collections of poetry, of them one in
Swedish and one bilingual, as well as poetry on CD. He has published about
twenty books of poetry translations, mostly Latvian poetry into Swedish,
but also Swedish poetry into Latvian. |
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