Jānis Sudrabkalns (May 17, 1894 – September 4, 1975), born Arvīds Peine, was a Latvian poet and writer.

After the death of his father, Arvīds interrupted his studies at the gymnasium and gained further knowledge through self-study.

At the beginning of 1918, Sudrabkalns was demobilized due to his poor health and started working as a proofreader in the newspaper "Līdums", where his first humorous poem "Pavasara zaļais karogs" was published on May 4, 1918 under the pseudonym Olivereto.

In 1919 during the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, he worked as a translator for the communist newspaper Cīņa.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Sudrabkalns worked at various newspapers such as Latvijas Vēstnesis, Jaunākās Ziņas and Dienas Lapa, where he published many articles on Latvian, German, English, Russian and Italian literature, theater and music.