Anna Brigadere

In 1897, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.

Six years later, her first and most popular play Sprīdītis/The Tale of Sprīdītis was written for the Riga Latvian Theatre director Jēkabs Duburs, who staged the play in 1903.

World War I would lead her to emigrate to Moscow.

[1] She wrote comedy and drama, among which The Tale of Sprīdītis, a young boy from a Latvian peasant family and his fantastic adventures in a nearby forest.

She also wrote four autobiographies, among which Dievs, daba, darbs (God, Nature, Work) about the life of a Latvian woman in the late 19th century.