54 Books by Latvian Authors Published Abroad Last Year

2024, January 17

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Most books have been published in Lithuanian, Estonian, and Spanish, with the most translated authors last year being Anete Melece, Nora Ikstena, and Semjons Haņins.

During the past year, 54 works by Latvian authors were published in 19 countries. Eight Latvian literature translations were released in Lithuanian, while six works were published in Estonian and Spanish. The significant number of works in Lithuanian is largely because 2023 was declared the Year of Latvian Literature in Lithuania. Children's book author and illustrator Anete Melece's works were released in seven countries last year, while Nora Ikstena's and Semjons Haņins' works were released in five.

Of all the books released, 17 are poetry, 19 are children's literature, and 15 are prose works, with 3 poetry and prose anthologies also published abroad. The most translated works include Anete Melece's "Stella's Stolen Sleep" (5 translations), Nora Ikstena's "Soviet Milk" (4 translations), and Semjons Haņins' poetry collection "But Not With It" (3 translations).

"We are very delighted about the release of the contemporary Latvian prose anthology in France, translated by Nicolas Auzanneau and published by 'Magellan&Cie' allowing French readers to get to know the works of Jānis Joņevs, Andra Neiburga, Arno Jundze, Pauls Bankovskis, Sabīne Košeļeva, and Svens Kuzmins. A tremendous effort was invested in the poetry anthology published by the Lithuanian publishing house "Slinktys" which includes more than 40 works by classical and contemporary Latvian poets," said Rita Dementjeva, representative of the Latvian Literature platform.

There is also a pride in the fact that new territories were reached – two works, Anete Melece's "The Kiosk" and Nora Ikstena's "Soviet Milk" were released in the Dutch language last year, where nothing from Latvian literature had been published for many years. Several fragments from Andris Kuprišs' story collection "Berlin" were published in the Dutch literary journal "Terras" in September.

The majority of all Latvian literary works published abroad have received support from the Latvian Ministry of Culture.

Latvian Literature translation 2023

No.	Author	Publisher	Language	Literary Work	Translator
1.	Nora Ikstena	Vernatun Media	Armenian	Mātes Piens	Gohar Aslanyan
2.	Māris Bērziņš	Newmag Publishing	Armenian	Svina garša	Naira Khachatryan, Goara Aslanjana
3.	Anete Melece	Albur Producciones Editoriales S. L.	Catalan	Pazudušais miedziņš	Ariadna Pous
4.	Lauris Gundars, Anete Melece	Beijing New Oriental Dogwood Cultural Communications Co	Chinese	Sveiks, Vali
5.	Nora Ikstena	Paseka	Czech	Mātes Piens	Anna Sedláčková
6.	Nora Ikstena	Multivers	Danish	Mātes Piens	Kristīne Skarbinika-Pedersena
7.	Anete Melece	Lannoo Publishers	Dutch	Kiosks	Edward van de Vendel
8.	Nora Ikstena	Koppernik	Dutch	Mātes Piens	Brenda Lelie
9.	Andris Kalnozols	Postimehe Kirjastus OÜ	Estonian	Kalendārs mani sauc	Contra
10.	Daila Ozola, Agate Lielpētere	Hunt Kirjastus OU	Estonian	Klik-klik!	Contra
11.	Guntis Berelis	Mina Ise	Estonian	Vārdiem nebija vietas	Contra
12.	Lauris Gundars, Anete Melece	Rahva Raamat	Estonian	Sveiks, Vali	Contra
13.	Ķempi Kārl	The international Society of Livonian friends	Estonian	Tuvības veidi	Valts Ernštreits
14.	Semjons Haņins	Tuum	Estonian	Bet ne ar to	Aare Pilv
15.	Rebeka Lukošas	Etana Editions Oy	Finnish	Nepaklausīgais vectēvs	Annika Suna
16.	Eduards Aivars, Jānis Elsbergs, Kārlis Vērdiņš, Arvis Viguls, Jānis Tomašs, Henriks Eliass Zēgners	Paperiporo	Finnish	Dzejas antoloģija	Mirja Hovila
17.	Imants Ziedonis	Le Beau jardin	French	Krāsainās pasakas	Gita Grinberga , Hélène Challulau
18.	Jānis Joņevs, Andra Neiburga, Arno Jundze, Pauls Bankovskis, Sabīne Košeļeva, Svens Kuzmins	Magellan & Cie	French	Stāstu krājums	Nicolas Auzanneau
19.	Līva Ozola	Albin Michel	French	Eju meklēt!	Nicolas Auzanneau
20.	Kārlis Vērdiņš	Le Boustrographe	French	Pieaugušie	Nicolas Auzanneau
21.	Signe Viška, Elīna Brasliņa	Éditions Les 400 coups	French	Kate, kas gribēja kļūt par vectēvu	Nicolas Auzanneau
22.	Agnese Rutkeviča, Anna Auziņa, Anna Belkovska, Artis Ostups, Inga Pizāne, Krista Anna Zalāne, Ligija Purinaša, Marians Rižijs, Toms Treibergs, Valentīns Lukaševičs, Madara Gruntmane, Anita Mileika	Parasitenpresse	German	Latviešu laikmetīgās dzejas antoloģija	Astrid Nischkauer, Kalle Aldis Laar
23.	Anete Melece	Verlag Antje Kunstmann	German	Pazudušais miedziņš	Matthias Knoll
24.	Gunars Janovskis	Uwe Lüders & Bernd Saxe GbR	German	Pilsēta pie upes	Rüdiger Herold
25.	Laura Vinogradova	Edition Wannenbuch	German	Upe	Britta Ringer
26.	Lote Vilma Vītiņa	Mirabilis Verlag	German	Dzejnieks un smarža	Lil Reif
27.	Anete Melece	CIEL Publications	Greek	Pazudušais miedziņš	Argiro Pipini
28.	Anete Melece	CIEL Publications	Greek	Kiosks
29.	Jelena Glazova	Prae Publishing	Hungarian	Naivums	Orsolya Kis
30.	Semjons Haņins	Kiadó	Hungarian	Bet ne ar to / Но не тем	Orsolya Kis
31.	Inga Gaile	Mar dei Sargassi Edizioni	Italian	Stikli	Margherita Carbonaro
32.	Anete Melece	Mirae Media and Books	Korean	Pazudušais miedziņš	Yong Hee- jin
33.	Juris Kronbergs, Anete Melece	Mirae Media and Books	Korean	Laika bikses	Jinhee Yang
34.	Rainis, Anete Melece,	Mirae Media and Books	Korean	Zirņa bērni	Yong Hee -jin
35.	Rebeka Lukošas	Woongjin ThinkBig	Korean	Nepaklausīgais vectēvs
36.	Anna Brigadere	Hieronymus	Lithuanian	Dievs, daba, darbs	Lilija Kudirkienė
37.	Arno Jundze	Hieronymus	Lithuanian	Putekļi smilšu pulkstenī	Jurgis Banevičius
38.	Artis Ostups	Bazilisko Ambasada	Lithuanian	Fotogrāfija un šķēres; Žesti; Variācijas par mēness tēmu	Dominykas Norkūnas
39.	Hermanis Marģers Majevskis	Hieronymus	Lithuanian	Pretstraumes čuksti	Almis Grybauskas, Antanas A. Jonynas, Vaidotas Daunys, Vladas Braziūnas
40.	Inga Ābele	Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishing House	Lithuanian	Paisums	Jurgis Banevičius
41.	Eriks Ādamsons, Aspazija, Uldis Auseklis, Arnolds Auziņš, Jānis Baltvilks, Fricis Bārda, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, Leons Briedis, Anna Brigadere, Pēters Brūveris, Māra Cielēna, Māris Čaklais, Herberts Dorbe, Inga Gaile, Arturs Goba, Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš, Juris Kronbergs, Imants Lasmanis, Maija Laukmane, Vītauts Ļūdēns, Aivars Neibarts, Jāzeps Osmanis, Inese Paklone, Jānis Peters, Vilis Plūdonis, Jānis Poruks, Marts Pujāts, Rainis, Anna Rancāne, Dzidra Rinkule-Zemzare, Maris Rungulis, Ieva Samauska, Kārlis Skalbe, Ontons Slišāns, Ojārs Vācietis, Viks, Kārlis Vērdiņš, Māra Zālīte, Inese Zandere, Imants Ziedonis, Žebers	Slinktys	Lithuanian	Diena kūst kā saldējums
42.	Laura Vinogradova	Odile	Lithuanian	Tētis un suns	Audrius Musteikis
43.	Monta Kroma	Bazilisko ambasada	Lithuanian	Lūpas. Tu,Lūpas. Es	Dominykas Norkūnas
44.	Jelena Glazova	Papierwdole	Polish	Dzejas izlase	Tomasz Pierzchała
45.	Māris Salējs	Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy	Polish	Mani neviens nepārsteigs ar zvaigzni	Miłosz Waligórski
46.	Alberts Bels	Automática Editorial	Spanish	Būris	Rafael Martin Calvo
47.	Anete Melece	Albur Producciones Editoriales S. L.	Spanish	Pazudušais miedziņš	Lawrence Schimel, Elina Braslina
48.	Inga Gaile	Círculo de Poesía	Spanish	Dzejas izlase	Lawrence Schimel
49.	Jānis Joņevs, Inga Žolude, Nora Ikstena, Regīna Ezera, Jana Egle, Inga Gaile, Katrīna Neiburga, Gundega Repše, Džena Andersone	Baltica Editorial	Spanish	Stāstu antoloģija	Rafael Martín Calvo
50.	Nora Ikstena	Vaso Roto	Spanish	Ūdens mirdzēšana	Rafael Martín Calvo
51.	Semjons Haņins	Círculo de Poesía	Spanish	Bet ne ar to	Indira Diaz
52.	Jānis Akuraters	Apriori	Ukrainian	Kalpa zēna vasara	Viktor Melnyk
53.	Lauris Gundars	V. Books –––– XXI, LTD	Ukrainian	Mika grāmata	Lina Melnyk
54.	Semjons Haņins	Mavi Delta Yayinlari	Turkish	Dzejas izlase	Efe Duyan

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