Knuts Skujenieks (5 September 1936 – 25 July 2022)[1] was a Latvian poet, journalist, and translator from fifteen European languages.

Skujenieks later studied at University of Latvia in Riga and at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

In 1962, he was convicted of anti-Soviet activities, and sentenced to seven years in a prison camp in Mordovia, Russia.

Skujenieks' poetry has been translated into many European languages.

In 2015, film director Ivars Tontegode shot a biographical documentary feature Knutification/Nepareizais about the life of Knuts Skujenieks.