In 1933, he published his hugely successful novel Zvejnieka dēls ('Fisherman's Son'), making him one of the most popular and commercially successful Latvian writers of the 1930s.
I 1933 udgav han romanen Zvejnieka dēls (Fiskerens søn), som gjorde ham til en af de mest successrige forfattere i Letland i 1930'erne.