Inga Žolude

Inga Žolude (born 1984) is a Latvian prose writer. She studied English literature at the University of Latvia, and upon receiving the Fulbright scholarship attended Southern Illinois University in the USA (2008 - 2009). In 2015, she obtained her PhD. Žolude's first novel Warm Earth/Silta zeme was published in 2008. Since then two more novels, Red Children/Sarkanie bērni (2012) and Santa Biblia (2013), have been published. For her collection of stories A Solace for the Adam’s Tree/ Mierinājums Ādama kokam (2010), she received the EU Prize for Literature. Her story Dirty Laundry was included in the "Best European Fiction 2014" anthology (Dalkey Archive Press). In 2015, her book Stories was published. In 2018 Žolude published Materia botanica and 1904. Melancholic waltz. She frequently writes reviews on Latvian and foreign literature. Žolude is a member of the Latvian Writers' Union since 2010. Her works have been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French, Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Czech and Bulgarian. 

Prose

Tēvs [The Father]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2026.
Raksti! [Write!]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2023.
Vendenes lotospuķe [The Lotus Flower of Wenden]. Riga: Dienas grāmata, 2021.
Livonijas debesis [Livonian Sky] In collaboration with Tiit Aleksejev. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2020.
1904. Melanholiskais valsis [1904. Melancholic waltz]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2018. 
Materia botanica. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2018. 
Stāsti [Stories]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2015.
Santa Biblia. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2013.
Sarkanie bērni [Red Children]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2012.
Sarunas no frontes [Conversations From the Battlefront], short story in Mēs. XX gadsimts [We. The 20th Century]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2011.
Mierinājums Ādama kokam [A Solace for the Adam's Tree]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2010.
Silta zeme [Warm Earth]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2008.

Children's Literature
Pirmo reizi uz zemes [The First Time on Earth]. Riga: Liels un mazs, 2020.

Literature Festival "In-Between: Baltic States" // Kultur-lettland, September 2021 [GER]

Audio conversation with Inga Žolude about "Vendenes Lotospuķe" // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 2021 [LV]

About For the First Time on Earth // Online magazine Satori, 2020 [LV]

About Livonian Sky // Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji, 2020 [LV]

Excerpt of "The Road" from Stories // European Literature Network, 2018 [EN]

LAF Participatnt's profile // Literature Across Frontiers [EN]

Tramlines Project // Literature Across Frontiers [EN]

Excerpt from A Solace for Adam’s Tree, about the author, inteview // European Union Prize for Litearture [EN]

Jūlija Dibovska, Trīs Poruki man zāļu skapītī stāv, review of Vendenes Lotospuķe // Online magazine Punctum, 2021 [LV]

Ieva Melgalve, Kāpēc tu man neraksti, review of Livonian Sky // Online magazine Satori, 2020 [LV]

Zanda Gūtmane, Vai mums ir kopīgas debesis, review of Livonian Sky // Online magazine Punctum, 2020 [LV]

Bārbala Simsone, Vai drīkstu tevi iztulkot?, review of Livonian Sky // Diena.lv, 2020 [LV]

Velta Voicioneka, Dvēseles valsis, review of 1904. Melamcholic waltz // Ubi Sunt University of Latvia, 2019 [LV]

Bārbala Simsone, Atbalss no dvēseles dārza, review of 1904. Melancholic waltz // Diena.lv, 2019 [LV]

Madara Līgotāja, Dabas un cilvēku dvēseļu simbioze, review of Materia botanica // Ubi Sunt University of Latvia, 2018 [LV]

Arnis Koroševskis, Bioloģiskais sapnis, review of Materia botanica // Online magazine Satori, 2018 [LV]

Bārbala Simsone, Ieaugt siltajā zemē, review of Materia botanica // Diena.lv, 2018 [LV]

Bārbala Simsone, Nepārejošs teksts, review of Stories // Diena.lv, 2016 [LV]

Ieva Viese-Vigula, Stāstu vara pār realitāti, review of Stories // Online magazine Satori, 2016 [LV]

Ilze Jansone "Sievietes izglābs pasauli", review of Santa Biblia // Online magazine Punctum, 2014 [LV]

Ieva Viese-Vigula, Svētās spoguļspēles, review of Santa Biblia // Online magazine Satori, 2013 [LV]

Ilva Skulte, review of Red Children // KDi, 2012 [LV]

Guntis Berelis, review of A Solace for the Adam's Tree // Guntis Berelis' literary blog, 2010 [LV]

Kaspars Zābers "Kurš no mums ir koka Ādams?", review of A Solace for Adam's Tree // Culture newspaper "Kultūras Diena" [LV]

2022, Grand Prix of the Egons Līvs Memorial Award "Krasta ļaudis" for The Vendene Lotus 
2022, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in the Best Work of Prose category for The Vendene Lotus
2021, Nomination for the Kilograms kultūras 2021 Award for The Vendene Lotus
2021, Nomination for the Jānis Baltvilks Award in 2021 for the First Time on Earth
2020, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in the Best Children's Literature category for the First Time on Earth  
2018, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in the Best Work of Prose category for Materia Botanica
2016, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award for Best Prose for Stories
2013, Prose Readings 2013 Festival Award for the story The Writers' House
2012, Newspaper Diena Annual Culture Award for the novel The Red Children
2012, Sudraba Tintnīca Award for the novel The Red Children
2012, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award for Best Prose for The Red Children
2011, European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for A Solace for Adam’s Tree
2011, Latvian Writers' Union and Raimonds Gerken's Novel Manuscript Competition, awarded for the novel The Red Children
2009, Nomination for the Annual Latvian Literature Award in the Best Debut category for the Warm Earth