His works were banned twice — the first time after Kārlis Ulmanis' coup of 1934, and the second during the years of the Soviet regime, when his performance of his play, Ziedošais tuksnesis (~The Blooming Desert) was prohibited at the Dailes theatre and censors prohibited distribution of his book, Literatūras vēsture (~The History of Literature).
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XCI, No. 11 (featuring The Young Crane by Andrejs Upīts and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)