Background
Mirdza Kempe was born on February 9, 1907 into a working-class family in Liepāja, Latvia.
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Mirdza Kempe
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In 1915-1919 she studied at the 1st Liepāja primary school (now the 5th Liepāja school). Ķempe graduated from the 1st Liepāja secondary school in 1925.
Career
From 1914 to 1926 she lived in Tosmare at Ģen. Baloža st., 47; later she and her family lived at Bernatu st., 41 in Liepāja. Her first verse "Ne jums!" was published in the "Kurzemes Vārds" newspaper in 1923.
In the same year she translated Pushkin"s Mozart and Salieri into the Latvian language.
In 1927 she entered the University of Latvia in Riga. Because of lack of money she had to drop out of the university and in 1928 Ķempe started to work as an continuity announcer for Rīgas radiofons.
She translated works from Russian, English, German, Spanish and French. During World World War II she was evacuated to Moscow, Astrakhan and Ivanovo. She wrote plays, lyric miniatures and verses.
Achievements
Membership
She was a member of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.
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Nationality
Latvia Russian Empire Soviet Union