caption death_date birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
māris Čaklais in 1973 13 december 2003 saldus , latvia 16 june 1940 mcakleis 1973.jpg māris Čaklais
 māris Čaklais poet , writer
māris Čaklais

māris Čaklais -lrb- 1940 -- 2003 -rrb- was a latvian poet , writer , and journalist .
Čaklais studied journalism at the university of latvia until 1964 ; his first publications appeared in 1960 .
he translated to latvian bertolt brecht , paul celan , hans magnus enzensberger , and rainer maria rilke , among others .
he also wrote the lyrics , set to imants kalniņš music in the rolands kalniņš movie `` elpojiet dziļāk ! ''
-lrb- breathe deeper ! -rrb-
and ferenc molnár 's play `` liliom '' .
Čaklais worked at the newspapers `` literatūra un māksla '' -lrb- literature and art -rrb- and `` literatūra un māksla latvijā '' -lrb- literature and art in latvia -rrb- , and for the radio free europe .
in 2000 , Čaklais was a member of the latvian delegation to the european writers project `` literature express europe 2000 '' .
from 2000 to 2003 , he was the editor-in-chief of the literary journal `` karogs '' .
following re-establishing of latvian independence in 1990 , Čaklais received the fridtjof nansen international award -lrb- 1994 -rrb- , the latvian annual literature award -lrb- 2000 -rrb- , the order of the three stars -lrb- 2000 -rrb- , and the herder prize -lrb- 2002 -rrb- .
he died in riga in 2003 .
