Anna Brigadere

Sprīdītis playing the flute to make Lutausis dance.
Anna Brigadere's Memorial Museum Sprīdīši in Tervete, Latvia

Anna Brigadere (October 1, 1861 in Tērvete June 25, 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer from Latvia. 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.

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