Raimonds Ķirķis (1997) is a poet, poetry translator and a literary critic. He studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture and is one of the seven poets who is included in the young poet anthology Kā pārvarēt niezi galvaskausā [How to Overcome Itch in The Skull] published by Valters Dakša, compiled by Artis Ostups. Ķirķis has translated poetry of Wystan Hugh Auden, T.S. Eliot, Sohrab Sepehri, Forough Farrokhzad and others into Latvian, as well as Martin Andrew Crimp’s English version of Molière’s play The Misanthrope for the Liepāja Theatre production. Raimonds Ķirķis broadcasts the literary show “Bron-hīts” for radio NABA. In 2019 Ķirķis received the Normunds Naumanis Annual Award of The Young Critic.