Inga Gaile
Inga Gaile is a Latvian poet, novelist, and playwright.Biography
Gaile has written poetry collection for adults and children. Her works often focus on feminist issues and as well as issues related to different stigmatised groups. She has won the Latvian Literature Award and the Poetry Days Festival prize. Gaile has translated poetry from Russian into Latvian, and her poems have also been translated into various languages including English, Estonian, German, Swedish, Lithuanian, and Bengali.
She is President of Latvia PEN.Activism
Inga Gaile is an prominent member of the Latvian feminist movement and is a founder of the stand-up comedy group "Sieviešu stendaps/Women's Stand-Up".Works
Poetry
- Laiks bija iemīlējies. Rīga: Pētergailis, 1999.
- Raudāt nedrīkst smieties. Rīga: Nordik, 2004.
- Kūku Marija. Rīga: Orbita, 2007
- Migla. Rīga: Mansards, 2012.
- Vai otrā grupa mani dzird?. Rīga: Liels un mazs, 2014.
- Lieldienas. Rīga: Neputns, 2018.
Prose
- Stikli. Rīga: Dienas Grāmata, 2016.
- Neredzamie. Rīga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2018.
Plays
- Āda. Rīga: Dirty Deal Teatro, 2011.
- Mūsu Silvija debesīs. Rīga: Ģertrūdes ielas teātris, 2013.
- Trauki, in collaboration with Marta E. Martinsone. Rīga: Dirty Deal Teatro, 2014.
Works in translation
- 30 Questions People Don’t Ask: The Selected Poems of Inga Gaile. Translated in English by Ieva Lešinska. Warrensburg, Missouri: Pleiades Press; 2018.
- Klaas. Translated into Estonian by Aive Mandel. Tallinn: Looming, 2018.
Awards
- The Annual Latvian Literary Award for Can the Back Row Hear Me?, 2015.
- Prose Readings Award for the short story Piena ceļi/ Milky Ways, 2012.
- Latvju Teksti Magazine Award for Fog, 2012.
- Ojārs Vācietis Award for Fog, 2012.
- Poetry Days Award for Cake Mary, 2007.
- Ojārs Vācietis Award for Cry Not Laugh, 2004.
- Anna Dagda Foundation Award for Cry Not Laugh, 2004.
- Klāvs Elsbergs Award for Time Had Grown Enamoured, 1999.
