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Linards Tauns (born Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš) (October 13, 1922 – July 30, 1963) was a
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n writer. He was one of the immigrant artists who formed the
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school of art among Latvian immigrants in
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.


Biography

Linards Tauns was born on October 13, 1922, in
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, Latvia as Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš. He spent his childhood in Anniņmuiža neighbourhood in Riga. In 1944 he emigrated to
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. In 1946 he published his first works in Latvian immigrant periodicals. In 1950 he emigrated to USA and settled in
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. He worked in the
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and also as an editor in Latvian magazine ''Latviešu Žurnāls''. In 1950s he together with
Gunārs Saliņš Gunars Saliņš (21 April 1924 – 29 June 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 ...
established so called
Hell's Kitchen Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the eas ...
group of young Latvian immigrant modernist poets. Group was based in the Linards Tauns flat in
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neighbourhood. It was a place for regular meetings, discussions and poetry. Only one collection of Linards Tauns poetry was published during his lifetime. It was ''Mūžīgais Mākonis'' (Eternal Cloud) in 1958. His second collection ''Laulības ar pilsētu'' (Marriage with the city) was published posthumously in 1964 and was edited by his friend
Gunārs Saliņš Gunars Saliņš (21 April 1924 – 29 June 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 ...
. Linards Tauns died on July 30, 1963, in the New York. Edition of his Collected Poems in Latvian "Dzeja" was published in 2011.


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Latvian Encyclopedia of Literature
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