Juris Kronbergs


Juris Kronbergs was a Latvian-Swedish poet and translator who lived in Stockholm.
In Latvia, he is best known for his poetry, written in Latvian. His most acknowledged book is Vilks vienacis, which has been published in Swedish, English and Estonian. In Sweden, Kronbergs was the most prolific translator of Latvian literature into Swedish. Since the late 1970s, he translated numerous volumes of poetry and fiction by Imants Ziedonis, Vizma Belševica, Knuts Skujenieks, Uldis Bērziņš, Sandra Kalniete, Jānis Elsbergs, Edvīns Raups, Inguna Jansone and other authors, as well as an anthology of Latvian poetry and a selection of Latvian folk-songs.
During the 1990s Kronbergs worked as a cultural attaché in the Latvian embassy in Stockholm.

Poetry

Juris Kronbergs translated poetry, prose and other works of many Latvian writers into Swedish.
Grāmatās iznākušas daudzu latviešu autoru dzejoļu izlases — pārstāvēti Vizma Belševica, Knuts Skujenieks, Imants Ziedonis, Aleksandrs Čaks, Edvīns Raups, Jānis Elsbergs, Inguna Jansone, Guntars Godiņš, Dzintars Sodums un citi autori.

Other works