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Astrid Ivask was born on 7 August, 1926 in Latvia. She is a poet and a literary critic. She is best known for her poetry collections, which include "The White Book" (1962), "The Red Book" (1966), and "The Blue Book" (1970). Astrid Ivask was educated at the University of Latvia, where she studied literature and philosophy. She has also studied in France and the United States. Astrid Ivask is 89 years old. She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 55 kg. Her vital statistics are not known. Astrid Ivask is single and has no children. Astrid Ivask has been a professor of literature at the University of Latvia since 1965. She has also served as a visiting professor at universities in the United States, France, and Germany. Astrid Ivask has won numerous awards for her work, including the Latvian National Prize for Literature in 1966 and the Order of the Three Stars in 1998. Astrid Ivask's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her career as a poet and literary critic.

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1991

In 1991, the couple moved to County Cork, Ireland, but Ivark Ivask died in 1992. Astrid Ivask returned to Riga in 2001.

1984

Her other works include Pārsteigumi un atklājumi ("Surprises and Discoveries", 1984), children's poems and stories, and book of poetic travel sketches, Līču loki: Ainas un ainavas ("Curving Bays: Views and Landscapes", 1981), illustrated by the photography of Ivar Ivask.

1967

In 1967 they moved to Norman, Oklahoma, where Ivar Ivask became a professor of modern languages and literatures at the University of Oklahoma. She served as an adjunct professor teaching Russian, German and French. Ivar Ivask was editor of the university's literary journal World Literature Today and the couple hosted many authors and critics in their home and participated in readings and literary events.

1966

Ivask's first poetry collection was Ezera kristības ("Baptism of the Lake", 1966). Other collections include Ziemas tiesa ("Winter's Judgment", 1968), Solis silos (“A Step in the Forest”, 1973), Līču loki ("Curving Bays", 1981), At the Fallow’s Edge (1981), Gaisma ievainoja ("The Light Wounded", 1982). Most of her work was written in Latvian, but one collection, Oklahoma Poems (1990), was written in English. Her collected poems is Wordings (1987).

1944

Ivask, her mother, and brother left Latvia for displaced persons camps in Germany in 1944. Ivask studied languages at the University of Marburg. She later wrote "In Marburg-on-the-Laan European intellectual life was opened for me. In three years at the university, I worked with seven foreign languages, some living, some dead long ago, and I married into the area of Finno-Ugric culture." She completed her master's degree in 1949. The same year she married Estonian poet Ivar Ivask, who had earned his doctorate in literature and art history there, and they moved to the United States, where Ivar Ivask had been hired as a faculty member at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

1940

She was born Astrīde Helēna Hartmane in Riga, the daughter of Mārtiņš Hartmanis, a Latvian Army General, and Irma Marija Hartmane. Her brother was computer scientist Juris Hartmanis. Following the 1940 Soviet occupation of Latvia, General Hartmanis was imprisoned by the Soviet Union. He was executed in 1941, but his family would not learn of his fate until after the fall of the USSR in 1991.

1926

Astrid Ivask (born Astrīde Helēna Hartmane; August 7, 1926 – March 24, 2015) was a Latvian-American poet.

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