Andrejs Upīts

person

Biography

Andrejs Upīts (1877–1970) was an author, literary scholar, and literary critic. He lived through several different eras and their contradictions, which left a clear mark on all of his writing. Upīts wrote in a wide range of genres. His body of work includes 20 novels, 12 collections of short stories, and a succession of plays – dramas, comedies, and historical tragedies. Throughout his career, the author was both a literary scholar and a literary critic. Upīts was also a poet, journalist, and translator. He translated the works of Gustave Flaubert, Heinrich Mann, Anatole France, Heinrich Heine, and other foreign authors into Latvian. After World War II, Upīts became the head of the Department of Latvian Literature at the University of Latvia (1944–1948). Later he became the founder and director of the Language and Literature Institute at the Latvian SSR Academy of Sciences (1946–1951) and the president of the Latvian Writers’ Union (1944–1954).

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Bibliography

Prose
Plaisa mākoņos [A Split in Clouds] (1951)
Zaļā zeme [The Green Land] (1945)
Māsas Ģertrūdes noslēpums [The Secret of sister Ģertrūde] (1939)
Laikmetu griežos [At the turn of Eras] (1937-1940)
Smaidoša lapa [Smiling Fox] (1937)
Vecas ēnas [Old Shadows] (1934)
Jāņa Robežnieka nāve [The Death of Jānis Robežnieks] (1933)
Jāņa Robežnieka pārnākšana [Home-coming of Jānis Robežnieks] (1932)
Zem naglota papēža [Under a Nailed Heel] (1928)
Pa varavīksnes tiltu [On the Rainbow's Bridge] (1926)
Renegāti [Renegates] (1922)
Pērkona pievārtē [At a Thunder's Gateway] (1922)
Zelts [Gold] (1921)
Ziemeļa vējš [Northern Wind] (1921)
Pēdējais latvietis [The Last Latvian] (1913)
Zīda tīklā [In a Silk Net] (1912)
Sieviete [Woman] (1910)
Jauni avoti [New Sources] (1909)

Plays
Spuldzes maisā [In a bag of lightbulb] (1948)
Dziesmotā jūgā [In a song yoke] (1946)
Spartaks [Spartacus] (1943)
Ziņģu Ješkas uzvara [The vicotry of song's Ješka] (1933)
Ziedošais tuksnesis [Blooming desert] (1930)
Žanna d'Arka [Joan of Arc] (1930)
Šodien lillā! [Today Purple] (1930)
1905 (1929)
Apburtais loks [Vicious Circle] (1929)
Vesela miesa [Healthy body] (1928)
Mirabo (1926)
Atraitnes vīrs [Widow's husband] (1925)
Kaijas lidojums [The Seagull Flight] (1925)
Laimes lācis [The Bear of Happiness] (1923)
Privātīpašums [Private Property] (1923)
Peldētāja Zuzanna [Swimmer Zuzanna] (1922)
Salauzta sirds [Broken heart] (1921)
Saule un tvaiks / triloģijas 3. daļa [Sun and Steam / Trilogy part 3] (1918)
Nanniņa [Nanna] (1915)
Viens un Daudzie / triloģijas 2. daļa [One and Many / Trilogy part 2] (1914)
Balss un atbalss / triloģijas 1. daļa [Voice and Echo / Trilogy part 1] (1911)
Ragana [Witch] (1910)
Amazones [Amazons] (1909)
Pārcilvēki [Overmen] (1909)
Dzimumdienas rītā [Birthday Morning] (1905)

Stories
Vilnīša brauciens uz Austrumiem [A journey to the East of Vilnītis] (1945)
Noveles [Novels] (1943)
Sūnu ciema zēni / garstāsts jaunatnei [Boys of the Moss Village] (1940)
Stāsti par mācītājiem [Stories about Priests] (1930)
Kailā dzīvība [Naked Life] (1926)
Pa Lauča pēdām [Following the footsteps of Laucis] (1925)
Aiz paradīzes vārtiem [Outside Paradise] (1922)
Vēju kauja [The battle of the Winds] (1920)
Nemiers [Disturbance] (1912)
Mazas komēdijas (1-2) [Little comedies] (1909 1910)

Poetry
Fabulas bez morāles [Fables with no morals] (1924)
Mazas drāmas [Little dramas] (1911)