In the quiet of “Sprīdīši” in Tērvete, on 25 June 1933, Anna Brigadere fell silent – the writer who left Latvian children Sprīdītis and adults the great book of her own childhood, “Dievs. Daba. Darbs”. The National Encyclopedia also gives the place – Tērvete’s “Sprīdīši”, the house where she spent the last ten years of her life. In the same biography, beside the fairy-tale plays, another Brigadere appears: editor of a newspaper literary section, poet, dramatist, and recipient of the Order of the Three Stars.

Brigadere belonged to the generation of Latvian literature that formed under the Russian Empire but gained much of its authority in independent Latvia. Her “Sprīdītis”, “Maija un Paija”, and autobiographical trilogy lived on not only in books, but also in school, theatre, and family reading culture.