Irbe, Andrejs

Andrejs Irbe, pseudonym for Gunars Irbe, was born in 1924. He was a sociologist and writer, who after emigrating from Latvia lived in the suburbs of Stockholm.

He published several collections of short stories in Latvian, Mums nav svétvakaru (Chicago 1962) or Marisandra kaza (Västerås 1966) and worked as an editor for the exile-Latvian literary magazine Jaunā Gaita. He has also been writing in Swedish and translated from Latvian to Swedish, at times together with Tomas Tranströmer.