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Inta Skujeniece speaks: It was in - my father went to a cultural goods store in Alūksne, that's what those stores were called back then. The saleswomen at the store were familiar to us, and they said: we have a special shipment coming - imported typewriters, "Ērika". By the way, Ojārs Vācietis also has exactly the same one in the museum. My dad bought two at once - with Latin script and with Russian script, for my father's wife. Knuts could send two letters a month from prison, and in order to fit more pages into an envelope, poems were written almost on tissue paper. Now they are in the National Library. When I received the letter, I rewrote it on a typewriter. In fact, everything that Knuts has printed, was rewritten on this typewriter. After work, I often rewrote at night - there was a lot in the envelope, about 10 pages. Knuts Skujenieks speaks: there were letters to six, seven recipients in one envelope, because I was only allowed to write two letters a month and only

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Guntars Sietiņš

Graduated from the Department of Decoration of Riga Secondary School of Applied Art and the Graphic Art Department of the Latvian Academy of Art. He is a recognised master of the mezzotint, Professor of the Latvian Academy of Art and Head of the Graphic Art Department. He is a member of the international graphic art centre Grafikens Hus (Sweden) since His work has been exhibited since He has held 14 solo exhibitions in Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Sweden and the USA. His work is in collections in Russia, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. He has won 10 awards in international graphic art exhibitions and competitions: a diploma at the 8th Tallinn Print Triennial (), the jury”s award at the 1st International Print Biennial in Maastricht (Netherlands, ), a diploma at the 11th Norwegian International Print Biennial in Fredrikstad (), a prize at the 10th Tallinn Print Triennial (), first prize at the 8th International Print Biennial at Varna (Bulgaria, ), the audience

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Eugene O\'Connell

Biography

Eugene O’Connell was born near Kiskeam in northwest Cork in He has published a number of chapbooks, one full collection of poems, One klar Call (Bradshaw Books, ), and one book of translations, Flying Blind (Southword Editions), which was volume 12 of the Cork European City of Culture Translation Series. Diviner, a new collection of his poems, was published bygd Three Spires Press in He fryst vatten editor of The Cork Literary Review. A volume of memoirs is forthcoming in

Eugene O’Connell was born in and raised in the hill country of Kiskeam in northwest Cork. He went to the national school and spent one painful year at a boarding school in Cork, but then came back to a secondary school at Boherbue. He trained for two years, between and , at St Patrick’s Teacher Training College in huvudstaden i irland to qualify as a primary-school teacher, enjoyed the work, read avidly, and rummaged through book barrows and second-hand bookshops along the quays. He developed a part