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Nora Ikstena

Biography

Nora Ikstena was born in Riga in 1969. She studied Latvian Philology at the University of Latvia and then English language and literature at Columbia University in Missouri. Her first publication was a biography of the Latvian writer and social reformer, Anna Rūmane-Ķeniņa. She has since written several biographies, novels, stories and non-fiction works.

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Bibliography

1993 Pārnākšana
1995 Nieki un izpriecas (stories)
1997 Maldīgas romances (stories)
1998 Dzīves svinēšana (novel)
1999 Brīnumainā kārtā (biography)
2001 Jaunavas mācība (novel)
2010 Deja un dvēsele (biography)
2002 Pasakas ar beigām (stories)
2003 Zīdtārpiņu musināšana (biography)
2004 Dzīves stāsti (Life Stories) (stories)
2006 Nenoteiktā bija (biography)
2006 Sīlis spoguļstiklā (essay)
2006 Īsproza (stories)
2007 Esamība ar Regīnu (biography)
2009 Amour Fou (novel)
2009 Šokolādes Jēzu (essay)
2011 Vīrs zilajā lietusmētelītī (novel)
2011 Starp divām durvīm (stories)
2012 Besa (stories)
2012 Dzīvespriecīgais vakarēdiens (cookery)
2013 Dievmātes draudzene
2014 Runā manis vainadziņš (essay -with Edita Pauls-Wigner)
2014 Ulubeles (stories)
2015 Mātes piens (Soviet Milk) (novel)
2017 Ārprātija piedzīvojumi (biography)
2020 Ūdens mirdzēšana (novel)