Linards Tauns (born Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš) (October 13, 1922 – July 30, 1963) was a Latvian writer.
[1] Linards Tauns was born on October 13, 1922, in Riga, Latvia as Arnolds Mikus Bērzs-Bērziņš.
In 1950s he together with Gunārs Saliņš established so called Hell's Kitchen group of young Latvian immigrant modernist poets.
Group was based in the Linards Tauns flat in Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood.
His second collection Laulības ar pilsētu (Marriage with the city) was published posthumously in 1964 and was edited by his friend Gunārs Saliņš.