1924 - 2010
Gunars Salins Latvian Poet
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Details
| Birthday |
21st April, 1924
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| Birthplace |
Dobele, Latvia
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| Died |
29th June, 2010
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| Place of Death |
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, US
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Nationality |
Latvian
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| Occupation Text |
Poet
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| Occupation |
Poet
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Gunars Saliņš (April 21, 1924 – June 29, 2010) was a modernist poet within the Latvian lyric poetry tradition. He became a leading voice of the "Hell's Kitchen artists" (Elles ķēķis) - a Latvian emigre artist community in the U.S. which flourished in the 1950s and 60s, named after the neighborhood in New York where it originated. In his youth, he was inspired by the Latvian poet Aleksandrs Čaks and later by writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Guillaume Apollinaire, Federico García Lorca, and Dylan Thomas. Saliņš' imagery playfully explored transformational and metaphysical elements in this world and beyond, often incorporating his personal experiences with allusions to myth, art, and ancient Latvian folklore - a process he referred to as "orpheism". Gunars Saliņš' poetry was widely circulated within the Latvian diaspora post-WWII; later his work was rediscovered and championed in Latvia in the post-Soviet era. In 2000, Saliņš was awarded the Order of the Three Stars
by the Republic of Latvia.
