Leons Briedis

Who is Leons Briedis?

Leons Briedis is a Latvian poet, a novelist, an essayist, a literary critic and publisher, translator of prose and poetry from Latin, Russian, English, Romance languages, Swahili, Albanian a. o. languages. He is also an author of several musicals produced on the radio and staged at the biggest theatres in Latvia, script writer, has written much for children, author of song texts, has translated 10 plays staged at Latvian theatres and rendered in verse opera librettos.