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He was born in Skrīveri, Latvia. He graduated from the parish school in Skrīveri, then continued his self-study, devoting himself mainly to the study of languages such as German, Russian, English, French and
Italian. He worked as a teacher, translator, and was also an active civil servant.
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Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles,
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