WRITER

Jānis Akuraters

1876 - 1937

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Jānis Akuraters (13 January 1876 – 25 July 1937) was a Latvian poet, writer, playwright and politician. He founded the Latvian National Theatre in 1919 and was director of Radio of Riga between 1930 and 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jānis Akuraters is the 6,237th most popular writer (down from 6,175th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 189th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jānis Akuraters ranks 6,237 out of 7,302Before him are Oscar Hijuelos, Jane Smiley, Anne Fine, Sarah Trimmer, Roddy Doyle, and Irena Krzywicka. After him are Alain Mabanckou, Rami Saari, Birger Sjöberg, Owen Barfield, Philippa Boyens, and Dannie Abse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Jānis Akuraters ranks 201Before him are Ralph Barton Perry, William Carr, John August Anderson, John Garstang, George Cloutier, and James Larkin. After him are John T. Dillon, Claude Buckenham, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Con Leahy, Sol Plaatje, and Sophia Duleep Singh. Among people deceased in 1937, Jānis Akuraters ranks 184Before him are George Caridia, Annie Lorrain Smith, Marie Prevost, Gyula Juhász, Ross Alexander, and Ellen Hansell. After him are John T. Dillon, Claude Buckenham, William Gillette, John Russell Pope, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Arthur Edmund Carewe.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Akuraters ranks 195 out of 323Before him are Solvita Āboltiņa (1963), Valdis Valters (1957), Aleksandrs Starkovs (1955), Artūrs Irbe (1967), John Konrads (1942), and Māris Gailis (1951). After him are Roberts Zīle (1958), Nikolai Ekk (1902), Ivans Klementjevs (1960), Einars Repše (1961), Vera Zozulya (1956), and Alvis Hermanis (1965).

Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Jānis Akuraters ranks 29Before him are Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Regīna Ezera (1930), Imants Ziedonis (1933), Juris Alunāns (1832), Anšlavs Eglītis (1906), and Atis Kronvalds (1837). After him are Gints Zilbalodis (1994).