Inguna Ula Cepīte

Biography

Inguna Ula Cepīte (1960) grew up in the family of noted Latvian choir conductors Ausma Derkēvica and Imants Cepītis. Since 1991 she has been the director of the publishing house Pētergailis, which she has developed into one of the leading publishers of textbooks and original Latvian literature in Latvia. Ulsiks is her first booklength work of prose for adults.

Bibliography

Ulsiks [Ulsie]. Riga: Dienas grāmata, 2017.

Cekulaina zīle dzied. Stāsti par Rīgas vēsturi [A Crested Bird Sings. Stories of Riga's History]. Riga: Pētergailis, 2015.

No Rīgas līdz Rīgai. Tobiass un Tama lielajā Eiropas bibliotēku ceļojumā [From Riga to Riga. Tobias and Tama on their Big Trip Around Europe's Libraries] Riga: Pētergailis, 2014.

Articles

Conversation with Inguna Cepīte // Internet magazine Satori.lv, 2015 [LV]

Reviews

Elīna Malāne, Bērnība ar saules garšu, review of Ulsie // UbiSunt.lv, University of Latvia, 2018 [LV]

Sandra Ratniece, Annele, Bille, Laura un ... Ulsiks, review of Ulsie // LA.lv, 2017 [LV]

Agija Ābiķe-Kondrāte, Vai Rīga jau gatava?, review of A Crested Bird Sings. Stories of Riga's History // Internet magazine Satori.lv, 2016 [LV]

Awards

Translations

Ulsiks, Neuvosto-Latvian lapsi

Ulsiks, Neuvosto-Latvian lapsi (Ulsiks)

Title

: Ulsiks, Neuvosto-Latvian lapsi

Title*

: Ulsiks

Authors

Inguna Ula Cepīte

Translated by

Mirja Hovila

Genre

Fiction

Language

Finnish

Publisher

PaperiPoro, Finland

Pages

254

Year

2018

Copyrights

The author, the translator, the publisher

Synopsis

This apparently simple yet subtly painful tale of childhood memories shows life in Soviet-occupied Latvia during the 1960s and 1970s. At times the bitter secrets of the Soviet dictatorship invade the childhood of this small, inquisitive, mischievous girl.