Aivars Madris

Aivars Madris (1987) is a poet and a literary and cinema critic. He was born in Liepāja, Latvia. He studied Baltic Philology at the University of Latvia and Audiovisual Media Arts at RISEBA University of Applied Sciences. Madris writes poetry since 2007 and his first collection of poems Zonas [The Zones] was published in 2019 by Neputns.

Zonas [The Zones]. Riga: Neputns, 2019. 

Conversation with Aivars Madris // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 2019 [LV]

Raimonds Ķirķis, Turpinot pārdefinēt vīrišķību, review of The Zones // Online magazine Punctum, 2019 [LV]

Ivars Šteinbergs, Liriskais miksteips, review of The Zones // Online magazine Satori, 2019 [LV]

2020, shortlisted for the Annual Latvian Literature Award best debut for The Zones