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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. Created in honor of
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writer, journalist and painter who became a war refugee in 1944. He had a prolific career as a novelist, and his later work often examined aspects of exile life.
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and the teacher and translator Marija Eglīte, née
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and graduated in 1935. After graduation, he worked as a teacher of drawing. In 1936 his first collection of novels,
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was published. In 1938 Eglītis started to work as a journalist in the biggest
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sanatorium. In 1930, his father remarried the artist and writer
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Juris Silenieks, Carnegie-Mellon University (1982).
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