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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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  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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  Georges Perec

  Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts at classification, and they are usually tinged with melancholy.
  
  Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
  
  Perec's first novel, Les Choses (Things: A Story of the Sixties) was awarded the Prix Renaudot in 1965.
  
  In 1978, Perec won the prix Médicis for Life: A User's Manual (French title, La Vie mode d'emploi), possibly his best-known work. The 99 chapters of thi

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  Chris Kraus

  Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. She studied acting and spent almost two decades making performances and experimental films in New York before moving to Los Angeles where she began writing. Her novels include Aliens & Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate. She has published three books of cultural criticism—Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love Dick was adapted for television and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020–2024. She has written for vario

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  Sjón

  Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) was born in Reykjavik on the 27th of August, 1962. He started his writing career early, publishing his first book of poetry, Sýnir (Visions), in 1978. Sjón was a founding member of the surrealist group, Medúsa, and soon became significant in Reykjavik's cultural landscape.
  
  Since then, his prolific writing drove him to pen song lyrics, scripts for movies and of course novels such as The Blue Fox.

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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
  * Doktor Proktor
  
  For exclusive content about Jo Nesbø and his books, register for the official fan newsletter: https://jonesbo.com/newsletter/

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  Sandra Kalniete

  Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader.
  
  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.
  After Latvia declared independence, Kalniete worked in Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and

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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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  Henrik Ibsen

  Henrik Johan Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama." Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.
  
  His plays were considered scandalous to many of his era, when Victorian values of family life and propriety largely held sway in Europe and any challenge to them was considered immoral and outrageous. Ibsen's work examined the realities that lay behind many facades, possessing a revelatory nature that was disquieting to many contemporaries.
  
  Ibsen largely founded the modern stage by introducing a critical eye and free inquir

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  Vizma Belševica

  Vizma Belševica was a Latvian poet, writer and translator. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  
  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.
  
  Vizma Belševica published her first poems in 1947; her first book of poetry appeared in 1955. Her most notable poetry collections are Jūra deg (The Sea is Burning, 1966), Gadu gredz

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  Ruta Sepetys

  #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and Winner of the Carnegie Medal.
  Ruta Sepetys was born and raised in Michigan in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. The daughter of a refugee, Ruta is drawn to underrepresented stories of strength through struggle and hopes to give voice to those who weren't able to tell their story. Her award-winning historical novels are published in over sixty countries and have received over forty literary prizes.
  
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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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  Robert Service

  This author is the British historian of modern Russia. For the British-Canadian writer of Yukon poetry, see Robert W. Service.
  
  Robert Service is a British academic and historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.
  
  He is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, A History of Twentieth - Century Russia, Russia: Experiment with a People and Stalin: A Biography, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. He wrote a marvelous book on communism titled Comrades Communism A World History (International Bestseller). He is married with four children.

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  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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  Anna Auziņa

  A. Auziņa dzimusi dzejnieka Imanta Auziņa un prozaiķes, tulkotājas Irinas Cigaļskas ģimenē. Viņas māsa ir tulkotāja Irēna Auziņa.
  
  Mācījusies J. Rozentāla Rīgas mākslas vidusskolā (1987-1994). Beigusi Latvijas Mākslas akadēmijas glezniecības nodaļu (1998) un Jura Jurjāna, Normunda Brasliņa un Kristapa Zariņa zīmēšanas un gleznošanas meistardarbnīcu (2001)
  
  Mākslas izstādēs piedalās kopš 1994. gada. Sarīkojusi vairākas personālizstādes. Strādājusi reklāmas aģentūrās par tekstu autori.
  
  Pirmais dzejolis publicēts 1991. gadā. Izdoti 3 dzejoļu krājumi. Publicē recenzijas par dzejas grāmatām.
  
  Saņēmusi Klāva Elsberga prēmiju par krājuma "Atšķirtie dārzi" manuskriptu (1994), A/s "Preses nams" konkursa balvu par manuskriptu "Slēpotāji bučojas sniegā" (200

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  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.
  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

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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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  Gusts Ābele

  Gusts Ābele (2004) ir teātra režijas students Latvijas Kultūras akadēmijā, Rakstniecības un mūzikas muzeja jauniešu pasākumu kurators un teātra studijas “Kāpnes” dibinātājs un vadītājs. Iestudējis izrādes “Gaidot Bodžanglu”, “Komēta nāk”, “Reiss. Mūsdienu stāsts”, “No un es”, “Skat, uguns!” u.c. Veidojis kultūras blogu “Kalambūrs”. “Pasaulē mīļākais klusums” ir viņa pirmā grāmata.

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  Alfreds Dziļums

  Alfreds Dziļums (1907–1976) – rakstnieks. Pievērsies galvenokārt lauku dzīves tematikai, apliecinājis darba un zemnieka dzīves vērtību. Prozai raksturīgs spilgts tipāžs, psiholoģiski precīzs raksturojums. Latvijas lauki prozā attēloti dažādos vēsturiskos apstākļos.
  
  Dzimis Jura Dziļuma un Helēnas Šteinertes ģimenē, vectēva Indriķa Dziļuma mājā – Doles pagasta “Jeņčos” –, jo ugunsgrēks bija nopostījis Baldones “Pūriņus”, kur bija ieprecējies viņa tēvs, turklāt abas saimniecības šķīra vien robežupīte Ķekaviņa. Agri zaudējis vecākus.
  Kad tika dalīts tēva mantojums, ieguva zemesgabalu, kur vēlāk izveidoja savu saimniecību un uzcēla “Rietumu” mājas; šajā laikā viņš nodibināja ģimeni, kurā dzimuši divi dēli.
  
  Izglītību galvenokārt ieguvis pašmācības c

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