He published several collections of poetry and short stories in Latvian like Mums nav svētvakaru (We Have no Nights of Sabbath, Chicago 1962) or Marisandra kaza (Marisandrs' Goat, Västerås 1966) and worked as an editor for the exile-Latvian literary magazine Jaunā Gaita. He has also been writing in Swedish (among others the poetry collection Född i f.d. svenska Lifland, 1976) and translated from Latvian to Swedish, at times together with Tomas Tranströmer.