Roalds Dobrovenskis

Roalds Dobrovenskis (Russian: Роальд Григорьевич Добровенский, born in 1936) is a Russian writer, translator, journalist and an honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences since 2002. From 1954 until 1955 he studied the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1975 graduated from Advanced Literary Courses in Moscow and started woking as a journalist. Since 1975 Dobrovenskis has been living in Latvia and working as an editor, editor in chief and writer. Dobrovenskis is a member of the Writers' Union both in Russian and Latvia, and translates prose and poetry from rather specific languages, such as Buryat, Yakut, Mongolian, Chukchi, and Latvian. He has translated into Russian such renowned Latvian authors as Aleksandrs Čaks, Ojārs Vācietis, Imants Ziedonis, Klāvs Elsbergs, and translated some of the most important works of poetry, and drama, for instance, Rainis' Indulis and Ārija, Joseph and His Brothers, Māra Zālīte's Trial and her play Margaret, and seminal works of other authors. Dobrovenskis has been publishing his original poems and translations, prose and articles in various important literary and cultural magazines and columns since 1955.

Velta Kaltiņa. Dzeja / Роальд Добровенский. Стихи [Velta Kaltiņa and Roalds Dobrovenskis. Poetry]. Riga: Apgāds Vesta-LK, 2016. 

Райнис и его братья. Семь жизней одного поэта [Rainis and His Brothers. The Seven Lives of A Poet) Riga: Karogs, 1999.

Рыцарь бедный. Книга о Мусоргском [The Poor Knight. A Book about Musorgsky]. Riga: Liesma, 1986.

Алхимик, или жизнь композитора Александра Бородина [The Alchemist, or the Life of Composer Alexander Borodin]. Riga: Liesma, 1984.

Высоко, на третьем этаже [High Up on the Third Floor]. 1974.

Град мой Китеж [My City Kitezh]. Russia, 1972.

За скрипичным ключом [Behind the Treble Clef]. first pub. Russia, 1971, re-pub. Russia: Речь, 2015.

Солнечные часы [Sundial]. Chabarovsk, 1967.

Interview with Roalds Dobrovenskis // LA.lv, 2016 [LV]

Interview with Roalds Dobrovenskis // Diena.lv, 2015 [LV]

About Roalds Dobrovenskis // Liepāja Main Science Library home page, 2015 [LV]

Александр Малнач, Roalds Dobrovenskis, about the author // Russians of Latvia [RU, EN, LV]

About Rainis and His Brothers // Diena.lv, 2015 [LV]

Guntis Berelis, Rainis starp faktu un fikciju, review of Rainis and His Brothers // Guntis Berelis' literary blog, 1999 [LV]

2005, the Annual Latvian Literature Award for lifetime achievement

2000, Award of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia