Background
She was born into a poor farming family in Vidzeme and studied teaching and Baltic philology at the University of Riga but left without completing a degree.
She was born into a poor farming family in Vidzeme and studied teaching and Baltic philology at the University of Riga but left without completing a degree.
Graduated Philological Faculty, Riga University.
She also wrote under the names Austra Sēja, Smīns, Trīne Grēciņa and Zane Mežadūja. Sakse next worked at translation and proofreading for various publications. In 1934, she joined the Communist party, then illegal.
At the start of World World War II, she left for Russia.
During this time, she was editor of the Latvian communist journal Cīņa. She returned to Latvia in 1944 at the same time as the Soviet army entered the country.
In 1965, she was awarded the title People"s Writer of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. She died in Riga at the age of 76. Her son Evgenii Andreevich Salhias de Tournemire wrote historical novels.
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.
