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Zenta Mauriņa, a Latvian writer and philologist, died on this day in 1978 in Basel, where she had lived and was buried. Despite being confined to a wheelchair due to polio, she made significant contributions to literature and academia, writing extensively on Latvian literature and translations. See wikipedia for more information.
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