Andra Neiburga

Andra Neiburga (1957-2019) was a prose writer and a well-known author of short stories. A graduate of the Latvian Academy of Art, she has worked as a designer for the magazines Avots and Karogs and has chaired the Latvian Young Writers' Association. Her first two highly acclaimed books were the short story collection Izbazti putni un putni buros/Stuffed Birds and Caged Birds, and the children's book Stasts par Tilli un Sunu viru/The Story of Tille and the Dog Man, published 1991, after which she only started publishing her work again in 2002. Stum, stum/ Push, Push was her latest collection of stories and won her repeated critical and public acclaim. Her stories have been turned into plays and staged in the New Riga Theatre. Several of her stories have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian and published in anthologies abroad.

Books
Stum, stum [Push, Push]. Riga: Valters un Rapa, 2004. 
Stāsts par Tilli un Suņu vīru [The Story of Tille and the Dog Man]. Rīga: Balta, 1992 .
Izbāzti putni un putni būros [Stuffed Birds and Caged Birds]. Riga: Liesma, 1988.

Stories published in the press and anthologies
Kur es esmu? Mēs. XX gadsimts [Where Am I? We. The 20th Century]. Riga: Dienas grāmata, 2011.
Kolonija. [The Colony]. Riga: Dienas grāmata, 2006.
Ieraksts dienasgrāmatā. Svētdiena [The Diary Entry. Sunday]. Karogs, No. 2, 2005.
Dzeltenais prieks [The Yellow Joy]. Karogs, No. 1, 1993.
Zelta kurpes, aplis, mīlestība [Gold Shoes, Circle and Love]. Avots, Nr. 12, 1990.
Kurš pazina Jurīti? [Who Knew Jurītis?] Karogs, No. 10, 1990.
Death of a Mouse in DESCANT NR 124, Toronto, 2004
Signes in EUROPE nov.dec.1992, France, Paris 
Summer Log (The Zone) in The Review of Contemproray Fiction , Spring 1998, USA 
El Nino in short story collection “Cette peau couleour d’ambre” // Presses Univeritaires de Caen, 2004, France
Stuffed Birds and Caged Birds // AGNI 33, Boston University, 1991

Andra Neiburga, artist's profile // The Council of the Creative Unions of Latvia [LV]

Video conference on female language in Andra Neiburga's prose // Online magazine Punctum, 2017 [LV]

Video conference on masculine subjectivity in Andra Neiburga's prose // Online magazine Punctum, 2017, [LV]

Interview with Andra Neiburga // Rīgas Laiks, 1994 [LV]

Valda Čakare, Par operām un dzīves jēgu, review of the play Push, Push // Online magazine Satori, 2014 [LV]

Undīne Adamaite, Par godu skumjajiem, review of the play Push, Push // Diena.lv, 2014 [LV]

Kitija Balcare, Jēgas uzjundīšana jeb stum, vien stum, review of the play Push, Push // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 2014 [LV]

Antra Roze, Dzīves jēgas meklējumi, review of Push, Push // Jaunā Gaita, No 240, 2005 [LV]

2004, the Newspaper Diena Award for Push, Push

2002, Eternal Copyrights Award by the Copyright and Communication Consulting Agency/Latvian Authors Association

1991, the Pastariņš Children's Literature Prize for The Story of Tille and the Dog Man