Roalds Dobrovenskis (Russian: Роальд Григорьевич Добровенский, born in 1936) is a Russian writer, translator, journalist and an honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences since 2002. From 1954 until 1955 he studied the Moscow Conservatory, and in 1975 graduated from Advanced Literary Courses in Moscow and started woking as a journalist. Since 1975 Dobrovenskis has been living in Latvia and working as an editor, editor in chief and writer. Dobrovenskis is a member of the Writers' Union both in Russian and Latvia, and translates prose and poetry from rather specific languages, such as Buryat, Yakut, Mongolian, Chukchi, and Latvian. He has translated into Russian such renowned Latvian authors as Aleksandrs Čaks, Ojārs Vācietis, Imants Ziedonis, Klāvs Elsbergs, and translated some of the most important works of poetry, and drama, for instance, Rainis' Indulis and Ārija, Joseph and His Brothers, Māra Zālīte's Trial and her play Margaret, and seminal works of other authors. Dobrovenskis has been publishing his original poems and translations, prose and articles in various important literary and cultural magazines and columns since 1955.
Velta Kaltiņa. Dzeja / Роальд Добровенский. Стихи [Velta Kaltiņa and Roalds Dobrovenskis. Poetry]. Riga: Apgāds Vesta-LK, 2016.
Райнис и его братья. Семь жизней одного поэта [Rainis and His Brothers. The Seven Lives of A Poet) Riga: Karogs, 1999.
Рыцарь бедный. Книга о Мусоргском [The Poor Knight. A Book about Musorgsky]. Riga: Liesma, 1986.
Алхимик, или жизнь композитора Александра Бородина [The Alchemist, or the Life of Composer Alexander Borodin]. Riga: Liesma, 1984.
Высоко, на третьем этаже [High Up on the Third Floor]. 1974.
Град мой Китеж [My City Kitezh]. Russia, 1972.
За скрипичным ключом [Behind the Treble Clef]. first pub. Russia, 1971, re-pub. Russia: Речь, 2015.
Солнечные часы [Sundial]. Chabarovsk, 1967.
Books to fall for
Rainis and His Brothers
Rainis and His Brothers (Rainis un viņa brāļi)
The Seven Lives of A Poet is more than just a melodramatic literary device. The life of Rainis, Latvia’s preeminent poet, dramatist, statesman and thinker evolved in such a way that on numerous occasions his literary and political work brought him to the brink of almost total collapse,
after which he was forced time and time again to start his life over. There was no need for him to wait for or invent complexities in his life – it was as if the plot for a story of epic proportions was laid out right before him. It was a case where fact was indeed stranger than fiction. The focus of the novel rests on the lives of people who had a profound influence on the 20th century, as the reader is taken up in a whirlwind of dramatic events that changed the course of history.
Contacts: izdevnieciba@jumava.lv
RainisAndHisBrothers_by_R.Dobrovenskis.pdf
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:Rainis and His Brothers
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:Rainis un viņa brāļi
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:Genre
:Fiction
Publisher
:Jumava
Pages
:655
Year
:1999
Foreign rights
:All languages available
Magnus, the Danish Prince
Magnus, the Danish Prince (Magnus, dāņu princis)
The novel Magnus, the Danish Prince is an account of the Livonian War that took place in the second half of the XVI century. It was a complicated and tragic period in history and one that defined the fate of the Baltic region, North West Europe and Russia for the centuries to follow. The author has chosen an untraditionally free and innovative form of writing allowing him to combine the historical facts, taken from old chronicles – testimonials of German, Latvian and Russian historians, with the lives and destinies of his fictional characters. He succeeds in blending both light-hearted, amusing episodes and real drama with undisputed historical records. This untraditional revisiting of the first and last King of Livonia – Magnus – resonates directly with the most current issues of modern life, thus through his exploration of a remote past, R. Dobrovenskij has written a book of relevance today.
Contact: izdevnieciba@jumava.lv www.jumava.lv
Title
:Magnus, the Danish Prince
Title*
:Magnus, dāņu princis
Authors
:Genre
:Fiction
Publisher
:Jumava
Pages
:556
Year
:2004
Interview with Roalds Dobrovenskis // LA.lv, 2016 [LV]
Interview with Roalds Dobrovenskis // Diena.lv, 2015 [LV]
About Roalds Dobrovenskis // Liepāja Main Science Library home page, 2015 [LV]
Александр Малнач, Roalds Dobrovenskis, about the author // Russians of Latvia [RU, EN, LV]
About Rainis and His Brothers // Diena.lv, 2015 [LV]
Guntis Berelis, Rainis starp faktu un fikciju, review of Rainis and His Brothers // Guntis Berelis' literary blog, 1999 [LV]
2005, the Annual Latvian Literature Award for lifetime achievement
2000, Award of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia
Женщина в янтаре. Антология латвийской прозы
Женщина в янтаре. Антология латвийской прозы (Latvian prose anthology)
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: Женщина в янтаре. Антология латвийской прозыTitle*
: Latvian prose anthologyAuthors
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:Genre
:Anthology
Language
:Russian
Publisher
:Вагриус, Russia
Pages
:240
Year
:2008
Synopsis
:Latvian prose anthology
Tirpsta diena kaip ledai
Tirpsta diena kaip ledai (Dzejoļi bērniem, antoloģija)
Title
: Tirpsta diena kaip ledaiTitle*
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:Anthology
Language
:Lithuanian
Publisher
:Slinktys
Pages
:160
Year
:2023