User:Peteris Cedrins
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Pēteris Cedriņš was born to Latvian exiles in Chicago in 1964 and repatriated to Latvia after independence was restored in 1991. He received his MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
He taught American literature and translation at the University of Latvia and Daugavpils Pedagogical University and works as a freelance writer and translator. His translations include The Encomium to Riga, a 16th century work by Basilius Plinius (Rīga: Latvijas Kultūras Fonds, 1997), and contemporary poetry by Uldis Bērziņš and Jānis Elsbergs. He is one of the translators of the new History of Latvia in the 20th century, published in English by Jumava this March. His poems, reviews and other writings have appeared in Sulfur, Hodos, and Notus in the United States, Shearsman in England, Diena, Literatūra, Māksla, Mēs, and Karogs in Latvia, Jaunā Gaita in Canada, and in Lithuanian, Slovenian, and French translation. Part of his extended prose work, The Penetralium, was published by the Oasis Press, and an extract will appear in 10th Muse this spring. He has also written on politics, culture and business in Latgale for The Baltic Times.
Some of his prose and poetry can be found on the Web at his site, as well as at Archipelago and Shearsman. A few of his reviews are at Epinions. He blogs on politics and history at Marginalia.
He has received a Landsman Fellowship, the Bieriņš Award, and grants from the Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the European Union. He served as the International Secretary of the Writers' Union of Latvia and on the Board of Directors at the Center for Multinational Culture in Daugavpils, and represented Latvia at the Baltic Writers' Council and Montmartre en Europe. He has translated for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Secretariat of the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration of the Republic of Latvia, Jerome Rothenberg, Per Olov Enquist, Rītdienai, and the Art Academy of Latvia.
He lives with the painter Ingūna Liepa (see The Art of Ingūna Liepa) in the somewhat Lovecraftian Jaunbūve district of Daugavpils, and has built some pages with photos and descriptions of the city and its environs here.
Here at Wikipedia, he mostly writes and edits articles on Latvian history and culture -- see Young Latvians, the Latvian National Awakening, Abrene District, the Latvian Social Democratic Union, Rainis, Selonia, Andrejs Pumpurs, Lielvārde, etc.
There is now a portal -- Portal:Latvia -- which will hopefully help those creating and editing Latvia-related articles coordinate their efforts to improve the increasingly shabby Category:Latvia. There is also a Baltic States notice board for those interested in articles on the Baltic States.
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