Anna Brigadere was a Latvian writer. She wrote comedy and drama, including 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, including Dievs, daba, darbs (God, Nature, Work) about the life of a Latvian woman in the late 19th century.
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