Andris Akmentiņš

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Animācijas filmu dublāžas tulkotājs vairāk nekā 40 filmām (Ledus laikmets, Šreks, Nejaukais es, Minjoni, Rango, Madagaskara, Bēbis Boss, Viesnīca Transilvānija, Troļļi u.c.). Scenārija autors vai līdzautors animācijas filmām "Eža kažociņš", "Kad āboli ripo", "Lote un pazudušie pūķi", "Trubā". u.c.
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Dzejnieks un publicists. Dzimis zvejnieka ģimenē 1933. gadā Ragaciemā – nelielā ciemā pie Rīgas jūras līča. Bijis ceļu strādnieks, skolotājs Slokā, bibliotekārs Ķemeru bibliotēkā. Publicējas kopš 1957. gada. Neklātienē beidzis LVU latviešu valodas un literatūras nodaļu (1959) un Augstākos literatūras kursus Maskavā (1964). Kopš 60. gadu vidus nodarbojas galvenokārt ar literatūru.
Bijis Latvijas Kultūras fonda dibinātājs un pirmais priekšsēdētājs (1987-1993), Latvijas Republikas Augstākās padomes un Saeimas deputāts un Latvijas Institūta vadītājs (1998-2000).
Sarakstījis scenāriju dokumentālajai filmai “Gada reportāža” (kopā ar H. Franku, 1965), mākslas filmām “Pūt, vējiņi!” (kopā ar G. Piesi, 1973), “Puika” (kopā ar Aivaru Freimani, 1977) u
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Jānis Rokpelnis

Jānis Rokpelnis is a Latvian poet and essayist. Honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fic
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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr
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Tove Jansson

Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally written in Swedish.

Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance.

Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. She said later that the war had depressed her, and she had wanted to write something naive and innocent. Besides the Moomin novels and short stories, Tove Jansson also wrote and illustrated four original and highly popular picture books.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.

George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

With this key figure of German literature, th
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Imants Ziedonis

Dzejnieks un publicists. Dzimis zvejnieka ģimenē 1933. gadā Ragaciemā – nelielā ciemā pie Rīgas jūras līča. Bijis ceļu strādnieks, skolotājs Slokā, bibliotekārs Ķemeru bibliotēkā. Publicējas kopš 1957. gada. Neklātienē beidzis LVU latviešu valodas un literatūras nodaļu (1959) un Augstākos literatūras kursus Maskavā (1964). Kopš 60. gadu vidus nodarbojas galvenokārt ar literatūru.
Bijis Latvijas Kultūras fonda dibinātājs un pirmais priekšsēdētājs (1987-1993), Latvijas Republikas Augstākās padomes un Saeimas deputāts un Latvijas Institūta vadītājs (1998-2000).
Sarakstījis scenāriju dokumentālajai filmai “Gada reportāža” (kopā ar H. Franku, 1965), mākslas filmām “Pūt, vējiņi!” (kopā ar G. Piesi, 1973), “Puika” (kopā ar Aivaru Freimani, 1977) u
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Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily famous for his crime novels about Detective Harry Hole, but he is also the main vocals and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, Doktor Proktors Prompepulver.

Series:
* Harry Hole
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Jānis Poruks

Jānis Poruks was a Latvian poet and prosaist. Best known for his works Pērļu zvejnieks (1895), Hernhūtieši (1895), Zilizana sirdsdedze (1905) and Dzejas (1906).

Jānis Poruks (1871–1911) ir viens no izcilākajiem 19. un 20. gs. mijas latviešu rakstniekiem. Latviešu romantisma prozas pirmā spilgtākā darba – garstāsta "Pērļu zvejnieks" (1895) autors. Darbs iekļauts Latvijas Kultūras kanonā.
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Nora Ikstena

Nora Ikstena is a prose writer and essayist. Ikstena is one of the most visible and influential prose writers in Latvia, known for elaborat style and detailed approach to language. After obtaining a degree in Philology from the University of Latvia in 1992, she went on to study English literature at Columbia University. In her prose, Nora Ikstena often reflects on life, love, death and faith. Soviet Milk (2015, shortlisted for the Annual Literature Award for best prose), Besa (2012), Celebration of Life (1998), The Virgin's Lesson (2001) are some of her most widely appreciated novels.

The novel Amour Fou has been staged for theatre, and published in Russian (2010); other works have been translated into Lithuanian, Estonian, Georgian, Swedish
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Nils Sakss

Nils Sakss (Konstantinovs) mācījies spēlēt amerikāņu futbolu Amerikā, kino režiju - Francijā, teātra mākslu - Pēterburgā, strādājis par pludmales glābēju Dubajā, par sanitāru Ģaiļezera slimnīcā Rīgā, bijis bērnu sporta treneris Anglijā, laikrakstu "Diena" un "Dienas Bizness" žurnālists, kā arī izveidojis izdevniecību "Severīns".

Ieguvis maģistra grādu teoloģijā.
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Luīze Pastore

Luīze Pastore is a Latvian writer of children's literature. She is the author of over 15 prose books for children.

Awards and Recognitions:

2022, Laimes bērni - International Baltic Sea Region Jānis Baltvilks Award in Children's Literature

2022, Laimes bērni - 2022 BolognaRagazzi Award "New Horizons"

2018, Dog Town - #BEST NEW KIDS BOOKS 2018 Guardian pick

2018, London Book Fair, official author, Latvian delegation

2017, Pastariņš prize for the Art Detectives series

2016, "The Invisible Man" (from The Art Detectives series) selected for "The White Raven" 2016 list

2016, Annual Latvian Literature Award as the Best Children's Book for the Art Detectives series

2016, Latvian Children's Jury Chocolate Award for the Art Detectives series

2015, Internation
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M.W. Craven

M. W. Craven was born in Carlisle but grew up in Newcastle, running away to join the army at the tender age of sixteen. He spent the next ten years travelling the world having fun, leaving in 1995 to complete a degree in social work with specialisms in criminology and substance misuse. Thirty-one years after leaving Cumbria, he returned to take up a probation officer position in Whitehaven, eventually working his way up to chief officer grade. Sixteen years later he took the plunge, accepted redundancy and became a full-time author. He now has entirely different motivations for trying to get inside the minds of criminals . . .

M. W. Craven is married and lives in Carlisle with his wife, Joanne. When he isn’t out with his springer spaniel, or
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