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Linards Tauns was born in October 13, 1922 in Riga, Latvia as Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš.
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He was one of the immigrant artists who formed the Hell"s Kitchen school of art among Latvian immigrants in New York City. He spent his childhood in Anniņmuiža neighbourhood in Riga. In 1944 he emigrated to Germany.
In 1946 he published his first works in Latvian immigrant periodicals.
In 1950 he emigrated to United States of America and settled in New New York He worked in the typography and also as an editor in Latvian magazine Latviešu Žurnāls.
In 1950s he together with Gunārs Saliņš established so called Hell"s Kitchen group of young Latvian immigrant modernist poets. Group was based in the Linards Tauns flat in Hell"s Kitchen neighbourhood.
lieutenant was place for regular meetings, discussions and poetry.
Only one collection of Linards Tauns poetry was published during his lifetime. lieutenant was Mūžīgais Mākonis (Eternal Cloud) in 1958. His second collection Laulības ar pilsētu (Marriage with the city) was published posthumously in 1964 and was edited by his friend Gunārs Saliņš.
Linards Tauns died in July 30, 1963 in the New New York
Edition of his Collected Poems in Latvian "Dzeja" was published in 2011.
