Andris Ogriņš

Andris Ogriņš, born in 1975, Riga, is a Latvian poet. Ogriņš obtained his secondary education at the Natālija Draudziņa Gymnasium and went on to study at the Riga Technical University. He has worked as a post officer, data entry operator, and senior manager at the Latvian Sports Museum, and a senior advertising monitoring data researcher. His poems were first published in the Kultūras Forums magazine in 2006. Ogriņš' work since then can be found in various periodicals and web outlets. In 2007, he participated in the young and upcoming authors seminar organized by the Latvian Writers' Union. His first collection of poems Es zvēru pie kraukļiem [I Swear to Ravens] (2008) received critical acclaim and earned him the Annual Latvian Literature Award for best début, as well as the Excellence Prize from the International Writers' and Translators' House and Ventspils City Council. Ogriņš also writes prose poems, some of which have been compiled and published in Pēdējā santīma grāmata [The Last Santim Book] in 2012.