Background
Saburova was born in Riga, Latvia, and lived there and at her father"s estate until 1915.
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Irina Saburova
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She received her education in both German and Russian high schools, and then attended the French Institute in Riga.
Career
In 1917-1918 she lived in Finland, afterwards returning to Riga and living there until 1943. She started writing at the age of eight. Her first story was published in the Riga journal The Lighthouse in 1923.
She contributed to various papers in Riga and the Soviet Union until the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states in 1940.
From 1933 to 1940 she edited the journal Foreign You, and worked as a translator. During World World War II she went to Berlin and then to Munich where she remained for the rest of her life.
She worked as a translator at Radio Station Liberty in Munich from 1953 to 1973. From the 1940s through the 1970s she gave lectures and recitals in Bern, Switzerland, New York, Washington District of Columbia, Philadelphia, and many other cities.
She was known for her fairy-tale novellas, but she also wrote historical and anti-utopian novels.
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Latvia