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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Algirdas Kaušpėdas
Algirdas Kaušpėdas – architektas, muzikantas, aktyvus visuomenės veikėjas. Jis yra suprojektavęs eilę visuomeninių pastatų ir individualių gyvenamųjų namų tiek Lietuvoje, tiek užsienyje. Buvęs roko grupės „Antis“ lyderis, dabar – „KAnDIs“ narys. Aktyviai dalyvavo Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdžio veikloje, drauge su kitais organizavo Roko maršą per Lietuvą.
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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).
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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. -
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) was born in Atar, Mauritania, in 1957. A journalist, he founded the country's first ever independent newspaper, Mauritanie Demain, in 1988, and is a recognised champion of free speech. He was honoured for his media work in 2006 through an appointment to the Higher Authority for the Printed and Audiovisual Press in Mauritania, and he is currently an advisor to the President of the Republic.
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He has written four books, including three novels: Et le ciel a oublié de pleuvoir (2006); Le Griot de l'émir, (2013) and The Desert and The Drum (Le Tambour des larmes, 2015).
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Michio Takeyama
Michio Takeyama (竹山 道雄, Takeyama Michio, 17 July 1903 – 15 June 1984) was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar of German literature, active in Shōwa period Japan.
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After World War II, Takeyama became famous for his novel, Biruma no Tategoto (Harp of Burma), which was serialized in Akatonbo (The Red Dragonfly), a literary magazine aimed primarily at children, over 1947–1948, before being published in book format in October 1948. An award-winning novel, it was subsequently translated into English under UNESCO sponsorship, and made into a 1956 movie, The Burmese Harp. In 1948, he wrote Scars, set in northern China, which Takeyama had visited in 1931 and 1938. -
Jean Bürlesk
Jean Bürlesk is a storyteller. He writes, he reads, he acts, he makes jokes nobody understands. He would sing and dance, but he has no sense of rhythm or melody. Sometimes he still sings and dances. As a Luxembourger and a lover of words, he expresses himself in five recognizable languages, as well as the usual nonsense.
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He’s a terrific guide, unless of course he’s not and people just don’t have the heart to tell him.
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Darko Tuševljaković
Rođen u Zenici, 1978. godine. Objavio je pet romana (Senka naše želje, 2010; Jaz, 2016; Jegermajster, 2019; Uzvišenost, 2021; Karota, 2025) i tri zbirke priča (Ljudske vibracije, 2013; Naknadne istine, 2018; Hangar za snove, 2022). Dela su mu se našla u užim izborima za relevantne književne nagrade u Srbiji i regionu. Dobitnik je nagrade "Lazar Komarčić", Evropske nagrade za književnost (2017) i Andrićeve nagrade (2023). Roman Jaz je preveden na engleski, italijanski, bugarski, albanski, rumunski, slovenački, španski, grčki i makedonski jezik.
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Born in 1978, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives in Serbia. He has published five novels and three story collections. His works have been shortlisted for several prestigious Serbian literary a -
Dola de Jong
Dorothea Rosalie de Jong (Arnhem, 1911 – Laguna Woods/ Californië, 2003), schreef kinderboeken, romans, korte verhalen en reisverhalen voor onder meer De Telegraaf, Het Vaderland, De Groene Amsterdammer en het Algemeen Handelsblad. Haar roman Dans om het hart (1939) over de Amsterdamse danswereld, gebaseerd op haar eigen danscarrière, wordt als haar literaire debuut beschouwd. In 1954 publiceerde zij De thuiswacht, een roman over liefde tussen twee vrouwen. Haar in het Engels geschreven thrillerachtige roman The Whirligig of Time (1964) werd in de Verenigde Staten bekroond met de Edgar Allan Poe Award en door haarzelf in het Nederlands vertaald onder de titel De draaitol van de tijd (1965). Ook veel van haar oorspronkelijk in de Verenigde
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Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–87) was born in Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania. She spent her teenage years in a Siberian gulag. At twenty-one she escaped and returned to her home country only to be deported to Siberia once again in 1951. She was released five years later, then studied medicine. Grinkevičiūtė’s writings are now placed firmly in the Lithuanian canon.
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Vladimir Lorchenkov
Vladimir Lorchenkov, writer and journalist, was born in Chisinau, Moldova, the son of a Soviet army officer, in 1979. In his childhood he traveled across the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, including Transbaikal, the Arctic, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Hungary, Mongolia. When his family returned to Moldova, he studied journalism and for ten years was in charge of crime coverage at a local newspaper. Lorchenkov is a laureate of the 2003 Debut Prize, one of Russia’s highest honors given to young writers, the Russia Prize in 2008, and was short-listed for the National Bestseller Prize in 2012. Lorchenkov has published a dozen books, and his work has been translated into German, Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian and Finnish. He
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Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Rūdolfs Kārlis Leonīds Blaumanis bija latviešu prozaiķis, dramaturgs un žurnālists. Viņa darbi ir tulkoti angļu, vācu, lietuviešu, somu, igauņu, ungāru, ukraiņu, krievu valodā. Pēc vairāku viņa darbu motīviem ir tikušas uzņemtas kinofilmas. R. Blaumaņa populārākie darbi ir novele "Nāves ēnā", lugas "Skroderdienas Silmačos" un "Indrāni" un dzejolis "Tālavas taurētājs".
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Arno Jundze
Populārais kultūras žurnālists un literatūrzinātnieks Arno Jundze jau sarakstījis divas bērnu grāmatas, stāstu krājumu “Gardo vistiņu nedēļa” (2012) un romānu pieaugušajiem “Putekļi smilšu pulkstenī” (2014)
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Jānis Joņevs
Jānis Joņevs (1980) is a prose writer. His first novel Jelgava '94 immediately became a cult book among readers. During the TV show Great Reading the novel was chosen among the 100 most favourite Latvian books of all times. It was also praised among critics and received numerous awards. The novel is set in Jelgava town in 1994 and focuses on youngsters who are driven to heavy metal music. Sharing this taste of music and subculture they explore the life through the eyes of their youth. It is a book of a whole generation which experienced their youth in the nineties when Latvia had just regained independence. This novel has been adapted for the theatre performance by Jelgava New Theatre, and currently is being shot as a film. It has been tran
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Rainis
Rainis (the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns) was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism.
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Vizma Belševica
Vizma Belševica was a Latvian poet, writer and translator. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Receiving the Nobel prize was her childhood dream; she, as a poor but bright girl, spent much of her time reading classical literature. Belševica's work has been recognised: on December 6, 1990, she was elected honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; she has twice received the Spidola Award, which is the highest recognition in Latvian literature. Belševica has also received the highest award of the Latvian State, namely the Three Star Order.
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Aspazija
Aspazija (īstajā vārdā Elza Rozenberga) dzimusi Zaļenieku pagasta saimnieka ģimenē. Mācījusies Jelgavas Trīsvienības sieviešu ģimnāzijā (1874-1884). Pēc neveiksmīgām laulībām, kam sekoja māju zaudēšana, kopā ar ģimeni pārcēlusies uz Jelgavu, vēlāk strādājusi par mājskolotāju.
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1893.-1895. gadā Aspazija strādā Rīgas Latviešu teātrī, pēc tam iesaistās jaunstrāvnieku darbībā.
1897. gadā apprecējusies ar dzejnieku Raini (Jāni Pliekšānu). Pēc Raiņa apcietināšanas un izsūtīšanas laiku pa laikam dzīvojusi pie viņa Pleskavā un Slobodskā, kā arī Rīgā, kur strādājusi laikrakstā “Dienas Lapa”, abi kopīgi tulkojuši J.V. Gētes darbus.
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Russian profile here Людмила Улицкая
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria in 1943. She grew up in Moscow where she studied biology at the Moscow State University.
Having worked in the field of genetics and biochemistry, Ulitskaya began her literary career by joining the Jewish drama theatre as a literary consultant. She was the author of two movie scripts produced in the early 1990s — The Liberty Sisters (Сестрички Либерти, 1990) and A Woman for All (Женщина для всех, 1991).
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Immanuel Mifsud
Immanuel Mifsud was born in Malta in 1967, the youngest in a working class family of eight children.
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He started writing poetry at age 16, when he co-founded the literary group Versarti. At that same age he began to work in experimental theatre groups, directing his own plays and later he directed plays by Chekhov, Dario Fo, Max Frisch, Federico Garcia Lorca, David Mamet, Harold Pinter and Alfred Buttigieg.
Immanuel Mifsud writes poetry and prose, and some of his works have been translated into various languages and published in various European countries and USA.
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Gundega Repše
Gundega Repše (1960) – rakstniece, publiciste. Absolvējusi Latvijas Mākslas akadēmijas Mākslas vēstures un teorijas nodaļu. Strādājusi žurnālā "Liesma", laikrakstos "Labrīt", "Izglītība un Kultūra", literārajā mēnešrakstā "Karogs". Viena no spilgtākajām 90. gadu latviešu prozas pārstāvēm. Vairāku romānu, stāstu krājumu, biogrāfisku darbu, eseju un dokumentālu prozas grāmatu autore. Aktīvi iesaistās kultūras un sabiedriskās dzīves procesos.
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Ilze Šķipsna
Ilze Šķipsna (1928–1981) – rakstniece. Mūža lielāko daļu nodzīvojusi Teksasā, ASV. Pārvaldījusi septiņas valodas, nedaudz publicējusies arī angļu valodā, tomēr literāro darbību turpināja latviešu valodā. Izveidojusi un vadījusi Kimbela mākslas muzeja bibliotēku Fortvērā, ASV. Publicēti stāstu krājumi "Vēja stabules" (1961) un "Vidējā īstenība" (1974), romāni "Aiz septītā tilta" (1965) un "Neapsolītās zemes" (1970).
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Dzimta cēlusies Ušuru ezera krastos, Jaungulbenes pagasta dienvidos.
Dzimusi ierēdņa Ēvalda Šķipsnas un apgāda "Grāmatu Draugs" daiļliteratūras tulkotājas Elizabetes Kauliņas ģimenē. Rīgā dzīvojusi jūgenstila namā Elizabetes ielā 9A Vīlandes ielas stūrī. Vasaras pavadījusi vectēva mājās Jaungulbenes pagasta Dreiņos, kur veidojusie -
Andra Manfelde
Raksta dzeju, prozu un prozu bērniem. 2002. gadā viņa absolvēja Rīgas Dizaina un mākslas augstskolu kā tēlniece. Kopš 2002. gada publikācijas literatūras mēnešrakstos, tostarp dzejoļu izlase literārajā žurnālā "Luna", par kuru viņa saņēma Literatūras gada balvu.
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2005. gadā publicēts viņas pirmais dzejoļu krājums "Tranšejas dievi rok" (Ojāra Vācieša balva). 2005. gadā tika izdots arī viņas pirmais romāns "Adata", autobiogrāfisks darbs par jaunas sievietes cīņu ar narkotiku atkarību.
Sarakstījusi dzejoļu krājumus "Betona svētnīcas", "Ziemeļu tirgus", "Poēma ar mammu", romānus "Dzimtenīte" "Virsnieku sievas", "Vilcēni", prozas darbus "Ceļojums uz mēnesi", "Zemnīcas bērni", "Mājās pārnāca basa" un darbus bērniem "Sirds pasaka", "Vēja Vīrs un mē -
Marianne Fredriksson
Marianne Fredriksson was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist on various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.
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Fredriksson published fifteen novels, most of which have been translated into English, German, Dutch and other languages. Most of her earlier books are based on biblical stories. A central theme in her writings is friendship because, as she maintained, "friendship will be more important than love" in the future. -
Māra Zālīte
Māra Zālīte was born on February 18, 1952 in Krasnoyarsk, in a family, which was politically repressed by a soviet regime. In 1956 her family returned to Latvia. In 1975 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Latvia. M. Zālīte has worked as a technical assistant at the Writers’ Union of Latvia, the leader of the Young Writers’ Studio, a poetry consultant at the magazine Liesma and the editor in chief of the literary magazine Karogs. During last years she works at AKKA/LAA (a copyright agency). She is the president of Latvian Authors’ Association.
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Anna Brigadere
Anna Brigadere was a Latvian writer. She wrote comedy and drama, including The Tale of Sprīdītis, a young boy from a Latvian peasant family and his fantastic adventures in a nearby forest.
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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.
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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 -
Sandra Kalniete
Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader.
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Kalniete was born in Togur, Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia, where her family moved from Latvia during The Second War. She only saw her native country when she was seven years old.
She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book "Latviešu tekstilmāksla" (Latvian Textile Art) in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia's independence movement, and was a deputy chairwoman and one of the founders of Latvian Popular Front, the main pro-independence political organization.
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Julie Otsuka
Julie Otsuka is a Japanese American novelist and former painter known for her evocative, lyrical prose and her autoethnographic approach to historical fiction. Drawing deeply from her family's experiences and Japanese American history, Otsuka has crafted a powerful trilogy of novels that explore identity, memory, displacement, and the emotional legacies of war and immigration.
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Born in Palo Alto, California in 1962, Otsuka was raised in a household deeply shaped by the trauma of Japanese internment during World War II. Her father, an aerospace engineer, and her mother, a lab technician, were both of Japanese descent. Her mother, a nisei (second-generation Japanese American), was incarcerated along with Otsuka’s uncle and grandmother in the To -
John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
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Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
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Anna Gavalda
Anna Gavalda is a French teacher and award-winning novelist.
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Referred to by Voici magazine as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker", Anna Gavalda was born in an upper-class suburb of Paris. While working as French teacher in high school, a collection of her short stories was first published in 1999 under the title "Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part" that met with both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling more than three-quarters of a million copies in her native France and winning the 2000 "Grand Prix RTL-Lire." The book was translated into numerous languages including in English and sold in twenty-seven countries. It was published to acclaim in North America in 2003 as "I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewh -
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Rattawut Lapcharoensap was born in Chicago in 1979 and raised in Bangkok. He currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches high-school English. ‘Farangs’, his first published story, appeared in Granta 84. Since then, his work has been published in several literary magazines, as well as in Best New American Voices 2005 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005. His short-story collection Sightseeing was selected for the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ programme, won the Asian American Literary Award and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
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Sandra Kalniete
Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader.
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Kalniete was born in Togur, Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia, where her family moved from Latvia during The Second War. She only saw her native country when she was seven years old.
She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book "Latviešu tekstilmāksla" (Latvian Textile Art) in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia's independence movement, and was a deputy chairwoman and one of the founders of Latvian Popular Front, the main pro-independence political organization.
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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".
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Andra Manfelde
Raksta dzeju, prozu un prozu bērniem. 2002. gadā viņa absolvēja Rīgas Dizaina un mākslas augstskolu kā tēlniece. Kopš 2002. gada publikācijas literatūras mēnešrakstos, tostarp dzejoļu izlase literārajā žurnālā "Luna", par kuru viņa saņēma Literatūras gada balvu.
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2005. gadā publicēts viņas pirmais dzejoļu krājums "Tranšejas dievi rok" (Ojāra Vācieša balva). 2005. gadā tika izdots arī viņas pirmais romāns "Adata", autobiogrāfisks darbs par jaunas sievietes cīņu ar narkotiku atkarību.
Sarakstījusi dzejoļu krājumus "Betona svētnīcas", "Ziemeļu tirgus", "Poēma ar mammu", romānus "Dzimtenīte" "Virsnieku sievas", "Vilcēni", prozas darbus "Ceļojums uz mēnesi", "Zemnīcas bērni", "Mājās pārnāca basa" un darbus bērniem "Sirds pasaka", "Vēja Vīrs un mē -
Eriks Ādamsons
Eriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on June 22, 1907. In 1926 he entered the University of Latvia to study law. He made his first publication in 1924. In the 1930s he fully devoted himself to literature. Ādamsons also worked as translator (he spoke, in addition to his native Latvian, Russian, German, English and French). He married young Latvian writer Mirdza Ķempe in 1931, but their marriage broke apart shortly before WWII.
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In the years of the German occupation he worked in a book store and also in lumbering. His works was banned by the German authorities, so he published under a pseudonym - Eriks Rīga. In those years his health declined and he caught tubercolosis. In 1943 he began collecting materials for a book about Kārlis Padegs, a Latvian -
Māra Zālīte
Māra Zālīte was born on February 18, 1952 in Krasnoyarsk, in a family, which was politically repressed by a soviet regime. In 1956 her family returned to Latvia. In 1975 she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Latvia. M. Zālīte has worked as a technical assistant at the Writers’ Union of Latvia, the leader of the Young Writers’ Studio, a poetry consultant at the magazine Liesma and the editor in chief of the literary magazine Karogs. During last years she works at AKKA/LAA (a copyright agency). She is the president of Latvian Authors’ Association.
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Kristīne Želve
Kristīne Želve beigusi Latvijas Kultūras akadēmiju kinorežijas specialitātē (1996). Režisējusi tādas filmas kā "Fedja" (2012), "Musica Serena" (2016), "Mērijas ceļojums" (2018), "Emīlija, Latvijas preses karaliene" (2021).
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2011. gadā izdota viņas debijas grāmata, stāstu krājums "Meitene, Kas Nogrieza Man Matus", kas ieguva Literatūras gada balvu kā gada labākā debija. Grāmatā attēlota 90. gadu Rīgas radošās jaunatnes un bohēmas vide. Grāmata 2014. gadā izdota arī igauņu tulkojumā.
2021. gadā klajā nāk vēsturiskais romāns - apjomīgā dzimtas sāga "Grosvaldi". -
Édouard Louis
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. From 2008 to 2010 he was a delegate of the Amiens Academy to the National Council for High School Life, then studied history at the University of Picardy.
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From 2011, he is pursuing sociology studies at the ENS in the rue d'Ulm. In 2013, he obtained a name change and became Édouard Louis.
The same year, he directed the collective work Pierre Bourdieu. Insubordination as a legacy to the PUF, a work in which Bourdieu's influence on critical thinking and on emancipation policies is analyzed. In March 2014, he announced that he would direct a collection -
Jurģis Liepnieks
Jurģis Liepnieks studējis sengrieķu un latīņu valodas un filozofiju, lielāko daļu dzīves strādājis kā sabiedrisko attiecību, statēģisko komunikāciju un politikas padomnieks. Bijis vairāku Latvijas ministru prezidentu un ministru padomnieks.
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Jurģis Liepnieks
Jurģis Liepnieks studējis sengrieķu un latīņu valodas un filozofiju, lielāko daļu dzīves strādājis kā sabiedrisko attiecību, statēģisko komunikāciju un politikas padomnieks. Bijis vairāku Latvijas ministru prezidentu un ministru padomnieks.
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Regīna Ezera
Regīna Ezera (1930-2002) (dzimtajā vārdā Regīna Šamreto) dzimusi 1930. gada 20.decembrī Rīgā amatnieka un medmāsas ģimenē. Mācījusies Rīgas 28. vidusskolā un N. Draudziņas 7. vidusskolā, ko absolvējusi ar sudraba medaļu. 1955. gadā beigusi Latvijas Valsts universitātes Žurnālistikas nodaļu. Strādājusi laikrakstā „Pionieris” un izdevniecībā „Bērnība”. Rakstniece bija divreiz precējusies – ar bijušo leģionāru Jēkabu Lasenbergu un ar žurnālistu tulkotāju Česlavu Kindzuli, abas laulības tikušas šķirtas. Rakstniecei ir trīs meitas – Inese, Ilze, Aija. Audzinādama trīs meitas, R.Ezera atlicina laiku arī patstāvīgam personības veidošanas darbam - literatūras, kultūras vēstures un dabaszinātņu studijām, dzimtās valodas apgūšanai un pilnveidošanai.
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Džeina Šteinberga
Džeina Šteinberga savu rakstītājas talantu slīpējusi žurnālistikā, sabiedriskajās attiecībās un reklāmā. Iedvesmu rod mūzikā kā daļa no simfoniskā metāla projekta Oceanpath. Bijusi starp godalgotajiem autoriem Zvaigzne ABC fantāzijas un fantastikas stāstu konkursos.
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2020.gada nogalē Zvaigzne ABC izdeva Džeinas debijas romānu - fantastikas darbu Lasītāja, kas Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēkas Bērnu, jauniešu un vecāku žūrijas vērtējumā tika atzīta par labāko darbu vecuma kategorijai 15+.
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Greta Ambrazaitė
Greta Ambrazaitė (b. 1993 in Vilnius) is a poet, editor, musician, translator, and publisher. She holds an MA in Literary Anthropology and Culture from Vilnius University.
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Ambrazaitė's debut poetry collection Fragile Things (Trapūs daiktai, 2018) earned the Young Yotvingian Prize as a best young poet’s book and was announced as the 2018 Poetry Book of the Year. She was awarded the Young Artist’s Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture in 2019. Her second poetry book ADELA (2022) was awarded the Jurga Ivanauskaitė Prize and included into several best Lithuanian books’ lists.
Her poems have been translated into several foreign languages.
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Manuel Alvarez
Manuel Álvarez nació en Buenos Aires en 1986. Publicó la novela A ninguna parte (Editorial Bärenhaus, 2019); y el volumen de cuentos Nadie sale de acá (Azul Francia, 2022). Es editor literario en Chelsea Hotel Mag y reseñista en la revista Otra Parte.
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Erik Vlaminck
Erik Vlaminck is een Vlaamse roman- en theaterauteur. Hij is geboren op 2 juli 1954 in Kapellen (België).
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Hij leidde de Antwerpse SchrijversAcademie en de Vlaamse Auteursvereniging en hij is voorzitter van de Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde.
Erik Vlaminck in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
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Lina Limantaitė
Vertėja, dviejų lietuvių–italų kalbų žodynų autorė, italų kultūros puoselėtoja. Jau dvidešimt metų dirba Italijos ambasadoje Lietuvoje. Kalba keturiomis užsienio kalbomis, išmaišiusi Viduržemio jūros regioną, itin pamilo Umbriją – jos viduramžiškus miestus, žmones, virtuvę bei tradicijas. Domėdamasi italų kultūra ir istorija, sukaupė daug vertingų žinių, kuriomis dalijasi su skaitytojais. „Be užburiančios miestelių atmosferos, kvapą gniaužia nuošaliose vietose įsikūrusios abatijos ir vienuolynai, žaliuojančios kalvos ir žydintys laukai, vinguriuojančios upės, tyvuliuojantys ežerai. Atrodo, jog tai – nutapyti paveikslai", – sako autorė.
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Ingrid Carlberg
Ingrid Margareta Carlberg, (1961) is a Swedish author and journalist. She is also an Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Uppsala University.
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Valdis
Valdis (īstajā vārdā Voldemārs Zālītis) dzimis 1865. gada 28. septembrī Sausnējas muižā dārznieka ģimenē. Mācījies Stukmaņu muižas skolā, tad Subatē, beidzis Biržu draudzes skolu. Izglītību turpinājis Baltijas skolotāju seminārā Rīgā (1882 - 1886), studiju nolūkos apceļojis Vāciju, Šveici, Itāliju.
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Gadu nostrādājis Kokneses draudzes skolā, tad mācījies Viļņas skolotāju institūtā (1887 - 1890. gadam), to beidzis ar sudraba medaļu.
No 1890. gada strādājis Rīgā savienotajās pirmmācības skolās par skolotāju.
Pirmā pasaules kara laikā bijis skolotājs latviešu bēgļu skolā Tērbatā (1915-1918), pēc atgriešanās Rīgā strādājis dažādās skolās (1918-1919). Pēc tam līdz 1927. gadam bijis pārzinis savienotajās pirmmācības skolās (vēlāk - pamatskolās; 199 -
Kārlis Skalbe
Kārlis Skalbe was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults.
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Kārlis Skalbe dzimis 1879. gada 7. novembrī Cēsu apriņķa Vecpiebalgas pagasta Incēnos kalēja ģimenē. Mācījies Veļķu pagastskolā un Vecpiebalgas draudzes skolā. Jau 16 gadu vecumā laikrakstā "Balss" publicējis savu pirmo dzejoli "Sapnis". Skalbe bijis laukstrādnieks, kolportieris, vēršu dzinējs, kas viņam netraucēja 1898. gadā izdot savu pirmo grāmatu - dzejojumu "Pie jūras". Nozīmīga bijusi iepazīšanās ar Rūdolfu Blaumani, kas kļuva par tuvu draugu un literāro krusttēvu. Strādājot par skolotāju Ērgļos (1901‒1904), Skalbe iepazinās arī ar Antonu Austriņu, Jāni Akurateru, Jāni Poruku, bet galvenais ar Lizeti Erdm -
Andris Akmentiņš
Diplomēts žurnālists un reklāmas speciālists.
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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.
Romānam "Skolotāji" piešķirta AKA/LAA Autora balva un Soduma balva. -
Edvarts Virza
Edvarts Virza (arī Edvards Virza, īstajā vārdā Jēkabs Eduards Liekna) – dzejnieks, prozists, tulkotājs.
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Dzimis saimnieka ģimenē, beidzis Bauskas pilsētas skolu, 1904.-1905. gadā Maskavā klausījies lekcijas tieslietās un tautsaimniecībā. Pēc tam dzīvojis dzimtajās lauku mājās Billītēs, rakstījis dzejoļus, pašmācības ceļā apguvis franču valodu, atdzejojis franču autoru darbus, rakstījis arī par franču literatūru, ar šo darbu kļūdams par vienu no pirmajiem franču kultūras latviskotājiem.
Pirmā publikācija 1906. gadā.
Pirmais dzejoļu krājums „Biķeris” (1907) ļauj uzlūkot Virzas sākumposma daiļradi tā saucamās dekadences kontekstā. Lai arī pats Virza nav manifestējis īpašu tuvību ar šo virzību, „Biķeris” izrādījies mākslinieciski spēcīgākais dek -
Gunars Janovskis
Gunars Anatolijs Janovskis dzimis 1916. gada 8. februārī Helsinkos, Krievijas impērijas tālbraucēja kuģa kapteiņa ģimenē. 1919. gadā Janovskis ar ģimeni atgriežas Latvijā. No sākuma dzīvo Liepājā, bet drīz pārceļas uz Rīgu. Rīgā ģimene dzīvo Bolderājā un visa Janovska bērnība paiet dzīvojot pie jūras un kopā ar tēvu ejot zvejā.
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1922. gadā uzsāk skolas gaitas Rīgas pilsētas 4. pamatskolā Pārdaugavā. No 1926. gada līdz 1933. gadam mācījies Rīgas 1. Valsts ģimnāzijā. 1933. gadā uzsāk klasiskās filoloģijas studijas Latvijas Universitātē. Tomēr studijas nevedas, jo Janovski interesē vairāk dzeja un literatūra. Tā arī nepabeidzis, studijas pārtrauc 1938. gadā. Paralēli studijām sāk strādāt Valsts papīru spiestuvē par korektoru. Pirmie prozas darbi -
Eriks Ādamsons
Eriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on June 22, 1907. In 1926 he entered the University of Latvia to study law. He made his first publication in 1924. In the 1930s he fully devoted himself to literature. Ādamsons also worked as translator (he spoke, in addition to his native Latvian, Russian, German, English and French). He married young Latvian writer Mirdza Ķempe in 1931, but their marriage broke apart shortly before WWII.
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In the years of the German occupation he worked in a book store and also in lumbering. His works was banned by the German authorities, so he published under a pseudonym - Eriks Rīga. In those years his health declined and he caught tubercolosis. In 1943 he began collecting materials for a book about Kārlis Padegs, a Latvian -
Mohammad al Murr
Mohammad Ahmad Mohammad Al Murr Al Falasi (born 1955 in Dubai) is a short-story writer from the United Arab Emirates.
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He has published over 15 volumes of short stories and has had two collections translated into English: Dubai Tales and The Wink of the Mona Lisa.
Al Murr graduated from Syracuse University in the United States, and has been a member of a number of UAE academic institutions and councils. He is the head of the Dubai Cultural Council, recently reorganized as the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
In 2011 Al Murr was appointed to the Federal National Council's 15th Chapter as a representative of the Emirate of Dubai, and elected uncontested as Speaker. He served as the speaker from 2011 to 2015. -
Dewi Kharisma Michellia
Dewi Kharisma Michellia was born in Denpasar in 1991. She works as a writer, translator, and editor, and has experiences in writing novels, reportages, and short stories.
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Her work, Surat Panjang tentang Jarak Kita yang Jutaan Tahun Cahaya (A Long Letter of Our Million Light-Years Distance) was published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 2013 after winning the 2012 Jakarta Art Council Novel Contest, which later short-listed as the 2013 Khatulistiwa Literary Award. In 2016, A Copy of My Mind, a film-to-novel adaptation, published by Grasindo. Still at the same publisher, in 2017, her first collection of short stories, Elegi (The Elegy), was published. Her writings have been published in various respected outlets, in pindai.org, asymptotejournal.com -
Ilona Leimane
Rakstniece Ilona Leimane dzimusi Rīgā 1905.gada 5.oktobrī namsaimnieku Jūlija un Lienes Hermīnes Leimaņu ģimenē. Jūlija Leimaņa māte Kristīne, dzimusi Endzelīna, bijusi valodnieka Jāņa Endzelīna māsa. Tas ietekmējis nākamās rakstnieces Ilonas Leimanes sevišķi lielo interesi par valodas bagātību.
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Bērnībā Ilona vasaras pavadījusi pie vecmāmiņas un vectētiņa Ilzes un Indriķa Kļaviņiem Suntažu pagasta Eļmos. Apkārtējā daba uz meiteni atstājusi lielu iespaidu. Lielu ietekmi uz Ilonu atstāj vecaistēvs Indriķis, senu nostāstu zinātājs un labs stāstītājs, pagasta vecākais un izslavēts vārdotājs, kas jaunībā bijis arī skolotājs. Šķiet tieši vectēva ietekmē krāšņākā rakstnieces daiļrades daļa saistās ar senatni un no vectēva dzirdētie nostāsti atradu -
Vilis Lācis
Vilis Lācis was a Latvian writer and Communist politician.
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Lācis was born into a working-class family in Mangaļi, near Riga. He was a manual labourer, mostly working in the port of Riga and writing in his free time. 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. His novels have been characterized as popular fiction, not always liked by high-brow critics, but widely read by ordinary readers.
Throughout this period, Lācis maintained underground ties to the officially banned Communist Party of Latvia. Lācis was under periodic surveillance by the Latvian secret services due to his political activities. Eventually Lācis -
Lote Vilma Vītiņa
Lote Vilma Vītiņa is a poet, illustrator and artist from Latvia.
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Haralds Eldgasts
Literāro darbību sācis 1904.gadā žurnālā "Vērotājs". Publicējis apcerējumu "Janis Rozentāls" . Haralds Eldgasts kļuva populārs 1905. gadā ar programmatisko romānu "Zvaigžņotās naktis" , kurā grēksūdzes un pašanalīzes formā izteikti pretrunīgi personības intīmie pārdzīvojumi un mēģinājums atrisināt konfliktu starp materiālo un garīgo pasauli. Tas ir pirmais modernais romāns latviešu literatūrā. Romāna priekšvārdā H.Eldgasts izklāstīja savu izpratni par mākslu un tās attiecībām ar sabiedrību, uzsverot mākslas neatkarību un cilvēka dvēseles atklāsmi kā mākslinieka jaunrades vienīgo mērķu. Romāns izraisīja asu kritikas reakciju un ierindoja Eldgastu dekadentos. Arī vēlākajos darbos - lugā "Dēmona paradīzē" (1907), stāstu un tēlojumu krājumā "Vi
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Uršuľa Kovalyk
Uršuľa Kovalyk is a fiction writer and playwright. She is the co-founder and director of Theatre Without a Home, which works with the homeless and the disabled. She is a leading voice in the contemporary feminist literary discourse in Slovakia. Her work focuses on female characters often living unfulfilled and austere lives under the pressure of a patriarchal society, and more recently, on environmental issues and aging. Her works have been translated into nine languages. She has published several collections of short stories and a novel, The Equestrienne (2013), shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, which received the Bibliotéka Prize for 2013. Her most recent collection of short stories, A P
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Saulius Tomas Kondrotas
Born in 1953, Saulius Tomas Kondrotas emigrated to the West in 1986. During the years of 2001-2004, he worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe. Since 2004 he has been living in Los Angeles, California (USA). He published three collections of stories, and the novels: “A Glance of the Serpent“ (1981), “And the Faces of Those Glancing through the Window Will Darken“ (1985).
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His works have been translated into 20 different languages around the world. Kondrotas’s masterfully composed stories are marked by elements of time and fantasy, as well as intertextuality. He often combines several literary genres, while examining universal questions. Kondrotas is considered the most important representative of magical realism in Lithuanian literature. -
Pāvils Rozītis
Pāvils Rozītis (1889–1937) – rakstnieks, dzejnieks, žurnālists, tulkotājs, literāri publicistisku rakstu autors un literatūrkritiķis. Psiholoģiskās prozas tradīciju veidotājs latviešu literatūrā. Izkopis satīras un anekdotiskās noveles žanru, uzskatāms par 20. gadsimta 20. un 30. gadu latviešu anekdotiskās noveles spilgtāko pārstāvi. Sarakstījis 4 romānus, no tiem ievērojamākie ir 1928. gadā iznākušais romāns "Ceplis" un 1936. gadā publicētais darbs "Valmieras puikas". Romāns "Zemes prieks" (1937) nepabeigts. Vairāku dzejoļu, īsprozas un eseju krājumu autors. Rakstījis esejas par Kārli Skalbi, Jāni Akurateru, Jāni Jaunsudrabiņu, Viktoru Eglīti u.c., kas apkopotas 1920. gadā iznākušajā krājumā "Kultūras slāpes". Publicējis teātra recenzijas,
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Klāvs Elsbergs
Klāvs Elsbergs bija latviešu dzejnieks un tulkotājs.
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Klāvs Elsbergs dzimis Rīgā, viņa māte bija dzejniece Vizma Belševica, tēvs — tulkotājs Zigurds Elsbergs. No 1977. līdz 1982. gadam studējis franču filoloģiju LVU; atdzejojis no franču, angļu un krievu valodas (Gijoma Apolinēra, Pola Eliāra, Tristana Carā, Luija Aragona un daudzu citu autoru darbus). 1978. gadā viņš apprecējās ar dzejnieci Irēnu Auziņu. Elsbergs strādājis par redaktoru žurnālā "Liesma", kā arī aktīvi piedalījies savulaik ļoti nozīmīgā žurnāla "Avots" veidošanā.
Klāvs Elsbergs gāja bojā mīklainos apstākļos 1987. gada 5. februārī rakstnieku namā Dubultos, tiek pieļauta iespēja, ka viņš ticis nogalināts.
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Arnout Jaspers
Arnout Jaspers (1958) studeerde natuurkunde in Leiden, publiceerde als wetenschapsjournalist onder meer in NRC Handelsblad en de Volkskrant en is columnist van Wynia’s Week.
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In 2023 was Jaspers’ geruchtmakende boek De stikstoffuik het gesprek van de dag en wekenlang met afstand het bestverkochte boek in Nederland.