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  Vilis Lācis

  Vilis Lācis was a Latvian writer and Communist politician.
  
  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

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  William Makepeace Thackeray

  William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist, satirist, and journalist, best known for his keen social commentary and his novel Vanity Fair (1847–1848). His works often explored themes of ambition, hypocrisy, and the moral failings of British society, making him one of the most significant literary figures of the Victorian era.
  Born in Calcutta, British India, he was sent to England for his education after his father’s death. He attended Charterhouse School, where he developed a distaste for the rigid school system, and later enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge. However, he left without earning a degree, instead traveling in Europe and pursuing artistic ambitions.
  After losing much of his inheritance due to bad investments, Thackera

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  Erich Maria Remarque

  Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
  Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w

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  Sue Townsend

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
  
  Susan Lillian "Sue" Townsend was a British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. Her writing tended to combine comedy with social commentary, though she has written purely dramatic works as well. She suffered from diabetes for many years, as a result of which she was registered blind in 2001, and had woven this theme into her work.

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  Patrick Süskind

  From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
  
  After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide.
  

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  Oksana Zabuzhko

  Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
  
  Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also obtained her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  
  Zabuzhko is known both for her literary works and criticism. Her controversial bestselling novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex was translated in eight languages. In her writing Zabuzhko draws a lot of attention to the questions of Ukrainia

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  Nicolas Vanier

  Nicolas Vanier is a French adventurer, writer and filmmaker.
  
  His latest feature film, Loup ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of caribou, which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves.

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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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• Dace Ruksane

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• Svens Kuzmins

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  Edvarts Virza

  Edvarts Virza (arī Edvards Virza, īstajā vārdā Jēkabs Eduards Liekna) – dzejnieks, prozists, tulkotājs.
  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

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  Linda Nemiera

  Linda Nemiera (bij.Dreimane) ir rakstniece, kas visplašāk pārstāv latvijas urbānās fantāzijas žanru.
  Viņa ir absolvējusi Rīgas Valsts 1. ģimāziju un studējusi Vadības zinības, strādājusi Bruņotajos spēkos un kā menedžeris kosmētikas kompānijā.
  Rakstniece par sevi atzīst, ka ir trauksmaina un nemierīga. Lindai patīk grāmatas un lielākā aizraušanās ir ceļojumi, kuru laikā bieži rodas iedvesma jauniem romāniem.
  
  Lindas pirmais romāns, "Vilcenes stāsts" ieguva veicināšanas prēmiju Zvaigznes ABC rīkotajā jauniešu literatūras konkursā, kā arī otro vietu Bērnu žūrijā un 2011.gadā saņēma Lielo lasītāju balvu kā gada labākā oriģinālproza jauniešiem.

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  Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš

  Prozaiķis, dramaturgs, dzejnieks un gleznotājs Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš dzimis Neretas pagasta kalpu ģimenē, agri zaudējis tēvu. Jaunībā sācis interesēties par glezniecību, no 1899. gada mācījies V. Blūma zīmēšanas un gleznošanas skolā Rīgā, papildinājies Minhenē un Berlīnes Levina-Funkes akadēmijā. 1906. gadā viņš paraksta tā saukto dekadentu grupas manifestu un ir izdevuma “Pret Sauli” redaktors. No 1910. gada viņš kopā ar ģimeni dzīvo Burtnieku namā Mīlgrāvī, kur var netraucēti nodarboties ar literatūru. 1915. gadā Jaunsudrabiņš kopā ar ģimeni dodas bēgļu gaitās uz Ziemeļkaukāzu, pēc atgriešanās Latvijā dzīvo galvenokārt Pļaviņās. No 1919. gada bijis Neatkarīgo mākslinieku vienības biedrs, kā arī tās pirmais priekšsēdis. 1944. gadā emigrējis

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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.
  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.
  Pēc 1905. gada revolūcijas abi ar Raini devušies trimdā uz Šveici un apmetušies Kastanjolā. Latvijā atgriezušies 1920. gad

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  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.
  
  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

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  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.
  
  During the seventies the basic motives of Māra Zālīte’s poetry were the problems of young people, reflection of the tendencies of nihilism and alienation, quest for the me

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  Silène Edgar

  Fille et sœur d'auteurs, Silène a grandi dans une maison dont les murs sont faits de livres. Nourrie de voyages, elle a bourlingué un peu lors de ses études de lettres, et après quelques années à droite à gauche, dont une superbe escapade d'un an à Tahiti, elle a finalement posé ses valises près de Guérande. Elle enseigne aujourd’hui dans un petit collège du marais briéron, dont l'atmosphère est propice à l'imaginaire.
  
  Pour la jeunesse, elle est l'auteur d'une trilogie d'anticipation post-apocalyptique, largement nourri de son expérience polynésienne, dont le premier volume, La Saveur des figues, paraît en 2010. L'aventure de Moana se poursuit avec Le Bateau vagabond, paru en octobre 2011 et À la source des nuages, paru en novembre 2013.
  
  Pou

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• Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce

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  Heather Morris

  I am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an academy award winning Screenwriter in the U.S. In 2003, I was introduced to an elderly gentleman "who might just have a story worth telling". The day I met Lale Sokolov changed my life, as our friendship grew and he embarked on a journey of self scrutiny, entrusting the inner most details of his life during the Holocaust. I originally wrote Lale's story as a screenplay - which ranked high in international competitions - before reshaping it into my debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

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• Laura Vinogradova

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• Oskars Vizbulis

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• Andris Kalnozols

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• Kristīne Liepiņa

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  Jessie Inchauspé

  I’m a French biochemist, author, and product developer. My passion is turning cutting-edge science into easy tips to empower people to feel amazing.
  I’m the founder of GlucoseGoddess and the author of Glucose Revolution, a #1 international bestseller translated into 40 languages.
  You may have seen my work on Good Morning America, Vogue, and in lots of podcasts. You can find recent press here.

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  Zane Krēsliņa

  Zane Krēsliņa, dzimusi Latvijā, Rīgā. Augstāko izglītību ieguvusi Rīgas Stradiņa universitātē, veselības sporta specialitātē, un strādājusi kā trenere kopš 2014. gada.
  
  Rakstniecības gaitas sākusi 2018. gadā.
  Beigusi Literāro akadēmiju, prozas grupu, Ievas Melgalves vadībā 2022. gadā, paralēli strādājot pie debijas romāna.
  
  Atpazīstamu guvusi ar pirmo grāmatu par apzinātu ēšanu "Ēd un baudi" (2021), kurā stāsta par to, kā salīgt mieru ar ēdienu un ķermeni. Agrā jaunībā cīnījusies ar traucētu ēšanu, autore uzskata, ka salīgt mieru ar ēdienu var būt pagrieziena punkts dzīvei.
  
  Pēc diviem gadiem klajā nācis viņas debijas romāns "Man, lūdzu, espreso, kruasānu un laimīgu dzīvi!" (2023) Iedvesmu autore tam guvusi Francijā un pati atzīst, ka harmonijas

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