Inga Ābele

Биография

Inga Ābele is a writer and playwright born in 1972 in Riga. She began studies in biology at the University of Latvia, then left Riga to live in the country and worked as a horse trainer. Following that she studied Drama at the Latvian Academy of Culture, and has written plays and screenplays, collections of poetry, stories and novels. She is one of the most popular, unconventional and prolific authors of the youngest generation of Latvian writers
Her debut collection of short stories Akas maja (The Well House) was published in 1999 to critical acclaim. In the same year, she received an award for her play Tumšie brieži (Dark Deer), published in Latvia's literary monthly magazine Karogs (Flag) and later staged at theatres in Riga and Valmiera, at the Stuttgart State Theatre in 2002, and the Bonner Biennale (2002) as well. A tragic drama set in a modern, yet unusual environment - a deer farm - it was made a feature film in 2006. The manuscript has been described as "inhabiting the territory between Strindberg and Chekov on coke." In 2008 Dark Deer was staged in Greece.
Dzelzzale (Iron Weed, 2001) was staged in Latvia, Denmark and Finland. Her play Jasmins (Jasmine) premiered in May 2003 through the Independent Theatre Company "United Intimacy", and was staged in Lucerne, Switzerland at the La Fourme theatre in April 2007, directed by Peter Carp. A production of Ābele's play School took place at the Latvian National Theatre in 2008, and in 2009, The New Riga Theatre staged a production of her play The Island.
Her collection of poetry, Nakts pragmatike (Night Pragmatist), appeared in 2000 and a collection of prose poetry, Atgāzenes stacijas zirgi (The Horses of Atgazene Station), was published in 2006. The novel Uguns nemodina (Fire Will Not Wake You) came out in 2001 and was published in Lithuanian in 2007. Another collection of short stories, Sniega laika piezimes (Notes During the Time of Snow), won the Annual Award for Literature in 2004, and a book of selected stories titled Still Life With Pomegranate was published in French translation by L'Archange Minotaure, France, in 2005. Her short story "The Loving Years" was included in the European writers' anthology, Europe and National Identity (Italy, 2003).
In 2008, Ābele's novel High Tide was published in Latvia and, a year later, in Sweden; it has been published in English translation in 2013. The translation of the title story of the short story collection Ants and Bumblebees (published in 2010) was included in the anthology Best European Fiction 2010.
Inga Ābele was honoured as Writer Laureate at the festival Prose Readings 2008 in Latvia, and in the same year her novel High Tide received two prizes, the Annual Literature Prize and the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature. She is also a recipient of a Prose Readings appreciation award (2009).



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