“Jānis Zālītis is a ‘literary historian from God.’ In the literary life of the Nordic era – the 1920s – and behind the scenes, the researcher is perfectly oriented, and his voluminous work is similar to a literary-historical encyclopedia written in a compelling form, in which the Latvian “poet of love and pain” has a generous place. in the short, tragically determined path to eternity, “says literary critic Gundega Grīnuma.
Jānis Zālītis (1951) – literary historian, doctor of philology, participated in the preparation of the academic edition of Rainis Kopotu’s articles and Imants Ziedonis’ articles, co-author of the encyclopedic dictionary “Latvian Writing in Biographies”. He has written about the creative and biographical issues of Lev Tolstoy, Rainis, Aspazija, Austras Skujiņa, Rihards Valdes, Valdemārs Kārkliņš, Andrieva Niedra, Jānis Sudrabkalns and other writers; The newspaper “Laiks” (2004-2005) published a monographic reflection “The World on the Wing or the Book Friend Helmars Rudzitis”. Member of the Writers’ Union since 2001.
The book was created with the support of the State Cultural Capital Fund
The artist of the book is Jānis Esītis
About the project “I am …”
In 2018, the publishing house “Dienas Kirjan” started work on a new major project of Latvian literature “Es esmu …”. A total of 26 new works are planned in the new series: 13 novels and 13 monographs on the classics of Latvian literature. Authors of novels and monographs are writers Inga Ābele, Andris Akmentiņš, Guntis Berelis, Māris Bērziņš, Inga Gaile, Ilze Jansone, Arno Jundze, Laima Kota, Svens Kuzmins, Gundega Repše, Osvalds Zebris, Andris Zeibots, Inga Žolude and literary scholars Mai Daukste-Silasproģe, Gundega Grīnuma, Māra Grudule, Ieva Kalniņa, Arnis Koroševskis, Sigita Kušnere, Anita Rožkalne, Olga Senkāne, Lita Silova, Ieva Struka, Viesturs Vecgrāvis, Jānis Zālītis. The author and initiator of the project “I am” is the writer and art historian Gundega Repše.
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