Background
Dzidra was born on January 24, 1927 in Kraslava, Latvia.
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Dzidra Yanovna Kalnynya
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also known as
Berzina
interpreter literary critic professor teacher
Education
She graduated from the School of Music (Riga, 1945), Faculty of Philology of the Latvian State University (1951).
Career
Proofreader in the Latvian State Publishing House (1953-1954), teacher at the Riga State Pedagogical Institute (1955-1958), teacher (1958-1961), associate professor (1961-1969), professor (1969-1971) of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Latvian State University. Part-time lecturer on Western literature at the Conservatory and the Republican branch of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Professor of the Department of German Philology, faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology, Voronezh State University (1971-1975).
Author of scientific and popular works on Theodore Storm, Thomas Mann, Arnold Zweig, Ernest Hemingway, Elsa Triolet, Bernhard Kellermann and other writers. Her works were published in leading literary magazines and newspapers in Latvia. A course of lectures on the history of the culture of Germany was published in German in Riga (1962), and the monograph of Kalnyni, “A novel in the Federal Republic of Germany” (1970; in German) was published here. She translated the works of Lion Feuchtwanger, Johannes Robert Becher, Friedrich Dürenmatt, Halldor Killin Laxnes, Dieter Noll into Latvian. In 1975 Kalnynya returned to Riga and taught until the end of her life at the Latvian State University.
