Amanda Aizpuriete
Amanda Aizpuriete (born March 28, 1956 in Jūrmala , Latvian SSR , now the Republic of Latvia ) is a Latvian writer .
life and work
Aizpuriete studied philology from 1974 to 1977 and philosophy from 1977 to 1979 in Riga and Moscow . 1980–1984 she spent at the Maxim Gorki Literature Institute . She published her first poems in 1976 in the literary magazine "Literatūra un Māksla". Rowohlt has published three volumes of poetry in German: The Shoals of Treason (1993), Lass mir das Meer (1996) and Babylonischer Kiez (2000). She also publishes translations and revisions from Russian, German, English, Lithuanian and Ukrainian, including translating Franz Kafka into Latvian.
Amanda Aizpuriete has four children and lives in Kauguri (Jūrmala).
Awards
Aizpuriete received the Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry in 1999 , which the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts awards. In 2013 she received the Ojārs Vācietis Prize.
Works in German translation (selection)
- Cure Dieviņi tu paliksi. Where god will you stay then Latvian folk poetry. Selected by Amanda Aizpuriete. Retouched by Manfred Peter Hein based on the translation by Horst Bernhardt, 2011, Queich-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-939207-01-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Amanda Aizpuriete in the catalog of the German National Library
- Profile of Amanda Aizpuriete in the Scottish Poetry Library ( Memento September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Reviews of “Babylonischer Kiez” at Perlentaucher
- Review of "Babylonischer Kiez" in " der Freitag "
Individual evidence
- ^ Amanda Aizpuriete on literatur.lv, directory of Latvian literature in German translation
- ↑ satori.lv (accessed on August 22, 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aizpuriete, Amanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jūrmala , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union |