Anna Brigadere

Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 in Tērvete – June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer, playwright and poet from Latvia.
Biography.
Her first story was published in 1896. In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book "Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna" was published. Six years later, her first and most popular play "Sprīdītis/The Tale of Sprīdītis" was written for the Riga Latvian Theatre director Jēkabs Duburs who staged the play in 1903. In 1985, the story was adapted for cinema, translated in several languages. World War I would lead her to emigrate to Moscow. In 1918 she returned to Riga and continued there her literary creation.
Works.
She wrote comedy and drama, among which "The Tale of Sprīdītis", a young boy from a Latvian peasant family and his fantastic adventures in a nearby forest. She also wrote four autobiographies, among which "Dievs, daba, darbs" (God, Nature, Work) about the life of a Latvian woman in the late 19th century.