Anšlavs Eglītis (October 14, 1906 – March 4, 1993) was a Latvian writer, journalist and painter who became a war refugee in 1944.

In 1930, his father remarried the artist and writer Hilda Vīka, whose works and personality came to influence Anšlavs' literature.

Parallel to his literature career he became a theatre and film critic for the Latvian newspaper Laiks published in Brooklyn, New York, which also serialized a number of his novels.

[5][6] In 1957, his Neierasta Amerika began to be serialized in the Soviet Latvian magazine Zvaigzne, but it was immediately qualified as an 'import of bourgeois nationalism' and soon discontinued.

[8] In post-Soviet Latvia, his Shameless Old Men, directed by Mihail Kublinskis, is one of the most successful productions of the National Theater.

[10] In 2018, a movie was made based on the motifs of A. Eglītis novel "Homo Novus", which describes the passion in the life of Riga artists of the late 30s.