On July 25, 2022, after 85 fruitful and bright years of life, poet, comedian and literary critic Knuts Skujenieks passed away. Along with an outstanding contribution to the Latvian literary process, Knut Skujeniek’s life is also marked by the course of being a political prisoner of the Soviet regime. Namely, in 1962 he was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda, as well as failure to report a person who had expressed opinions hostile to the Soviet Union. The poet spent the next seven years in a strict regime colony in Mordovia.
Once upon a time, Knuts Skujenieks was Eduards Liniņas’ interlocutor several times in the program “These days eyes”. We offer to listen to fragments from these conversations.
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The stave sounds over the waters
For autumns for autumns
The clouds are still fleeing from the sun
Raspberries also burn like coal
Also aspen so that the hand is shaking
And nothing is fulfilled yet
And you still walk around whistling
Every bush and tree is still your house
Throw over the left shoulder
And sneeze in the sunshine
Bet
The stave sounds over the waters
For autumns for autumns
K. Skujenieks
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