21st Century Diaries / Day of Zigmund Skujins has been published

At the event, Zigmunds Skujiņš ‘daughter Inga presented a gift to the museum – a painting by Gunārs Zemgals, plays Hello, dear Blaumani! manuscripts and valuable books, as well as photos and personal belongings of his father, including a marble egg donated by Imants Ziedonis, a notebook for “Vārdošanas”, mittens and an umbrella.

“2020 started with restrictions and bans. The news was reduced to the number of sick and dead. I had compiled a manuscript – my father’s diary for the 21st century, it’s time for Valda. I urgently wanted to put my father’s legacy in order, because every day for each of us could turn out to be the last… This year I decided to keep and publish a small number of copies in his diaries, despite the fact that I wrote on a piece of paper in early 2021 – my father’s remarks will not be published, at least it is recommended by those who have just read them os I choose his quote as an excuse “It is important that we realize that we have the right to look at things with our own eyes, discuss and express our views freely.

Collection of herringbone notes and book Leased Kingdom is a logical sequel to February, shortly before Letters fly, thoughts sound – Zigmunds Skujiņš’s very rich correspondence with more than 50 cultural people in Latvia and abroad. Both books have been created thanks to the financial support of Skujiņš’s family, friends and talent lovers and are already considered bibliographic rarities due to their small circulation. Book layouts were created by Inese Gura.

Book Leased Kingdom, edited by Anita Mellupe, the confidant of the Skujiņa family, is interesting in that it speaks to a man who has lost his life without a smartphone, who did not really understand what “social networks” are, who was standing far away from society high temperature, boiled and bubbled all over the world. The writer was advised by his sixth mind and experience. He has changed four systems: authoritarianism, fascism, communism and authoritarian democracy. His unparalleled judgments and findings of diplomacy and political correctness have often flown forward to a severely slow official response, provoking anger and shouting, but over time it has become self-evident.

The life cycle of the writer Zigmunds Skujiņš has now ended near Dzegužkalns, in the land of his childhood, therefore his daughter Inga Skujiņš presented Gunārs Zemgals films at the RMM event Butterfly dance a portrait of his father painted at the time of admission in 1971, as well as plays Hello, dear Blaumani! manuscript and photos. The museum’s collections will also include several valuable books with Skujiņš’s recordings, as well as the 2001 calendar and the novel. Flesh-colored dominoes with an entry for a daughter and a son – in – law, as well as a “Notebook” notebook – linguistic rags and strangeness, synonyms, place names and artifacts. Also several writer’s personal belongings – mittens and umbrella. Mittens are one of the heart gifts the writer received from readers, but the umbrella was purchased in London in 1976 during a visit to the writer Gunnar Janovsky.

“The Museum of Literature and Music has always had a very important direct collaboration with Latvian writers and musicians in compiling the collections. Zigmundas Skujiņš’s collection has been developed gradually, working with the writer for many years. various notes, and very few memorabilia.Today in our event room In the inkwell, opening the book, which reads Zigmunds Skujiņš ‘correspondence with like-minded people and readers, we are honored to accept a gift from the writer’s daughter Inga Skujiņa. The subjects included in it not only testify to the author himself, but also show his relationship with other writers, inspirers and contemporaries, “emphasizes RMM director Iveta Ruskule.

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