Aleksandrs Čaks

Aleksandrs Čaks [ɑ.lɛk.sɑndrs tʃɑks] (born Aleksandrs Čadarainis; 27 October 1901 – 8 February 1950), was a Latvian poet and writer. Čaks is arguably the first Latvian writer whose works are distinctly urban, compared to the usual depictions of country life or small villages in earlier Latvian literature.