Zenta Mauriņa (b. Lejasciems, Russian Empire, 1897 – d. 1978, Basel, Switzerland) was one of the most famous Latvian writers. She was also an essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She ended up in Germany and then Sweden as a refugee after WWII. She has her own exhibition in a German museum (in the city where she lived for many years until her death).
