Knuts Skujenieks
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Knuts Skujenieks (born September 5, 1936 in Riga) is a Latvian poet, journalist and translator from around fifteen European languages.
He spent his childhood in Bauska, Zemgale (Southern Latvia). He later studied at University of Latvia in Riga and at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.
In 1962, he was convicted of anti-Soviet activities, and sentenced to 17 years in prison in Siberia.
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