![]() Her short stories' collections are Ķikuraga stāsti (Stories from Kikurags, 1965), Nelaime mājās (Misfortune at Home, 1979), Lauztā sirds uz goda dēļa (Broken Heart on the Board of Honour, 1997). Her most notable poetry collections are Jūra deg (The Sea is Burning, 1966), Gadu gredzeni (Annual Rings, 1969), Madarās (In My Lady's Bedstraw, 1976), Kamola tinēja (The Clew Winder, 1981), Dzeltu laiks (Autumn Time, 1987). Vizma Belševica published her first poems in 1947 her first book of poetry appeared in 1955. Belševica has also received the highest award of the Latvian State, namely the Three Star Order. Belševica's work has been recognised: on December 6, 1990, she was elected honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences she has twice received the Spidola Award, which is the highest recognition in Latvian literature. Receiving the Nobel prize was her childhood dream she, as a poor but bright girl, spent much of her time reading classical literature. Her son Klāvs Elsbergs was a famous Latvian poet in the 1980s and her second son Jānis is a writer as well. The city often is featured in her works, especially her most famous work-autobiographic trilogy "BILLE"-, but the time spent in Courland, on her relatives' small farm has also an important role in her poetry and writings. Vizma Belševica was born on May 30, 1931, in prewar Riga, then the capital of democratic Latvia, where she spent most of her childhood. ![]() Vizma's father had drinking problems, which aggravated when during the Great Depression he lost his job as a baker. The family was relatively poor, as only one of the two spouses did paid work. Belševica's father Jānis Belševics was a worker, and her mother Ieva Belševica (maiden name Cīrule) was a housewife.
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