Krista Anna Belševica

Krista Anna Belševica is a young writer, based in Riga, Latvia, working as a policy maker of higher education she is also a translator, researcher and poet, currently working on her second collection of poetry and first collection on short stories. She also writes book reviews, articles about various topics and organizes literary events, mostly for other young poets who like to experiment with the written and spoken word. Her first collection of poems, Hunting life came out in 2017. In 2020 she was included in the bilingual poetry edition if you forget your name as one of the fifteen contemporary poets, writing experimental poetry in today’s Latvia.

manifestācijas  [Manifestations]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2024.

ja aizmirsti savu vārdu/ jos unohdat oman nimesi [If you forget your name]. Helsinki: Palladium Kirjat, 2020.

Medījot dzīvi [Hunting life]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2017.

Lettisches Literaturfilmfestival Berlin: In Riga, um Riga und um Riga herum // Tagesspiegel, May 2023 [DE]

IntroVersIon poetry from Latvia // signaturen-magazin.de, April 2022 [GER]

"Fabulas" by Krista Anna Belševica // Online magazine Satori, 2020 [LV]

"Audums" by Krista Anna Belševica // Online magazine Punctum, 2020 [LV]

Poems by Krista Anna Belševica // Jaunā Gaita, Nr. 296, 2019 [LV]

"Lithium" by Kirsta Anna Belševica // Online magazine Punctum, 2019 [LV]

"Gals un sākums" by Krista Anna Belševica // Online magazine Satori, 2018 [LV]

"Siesta" by Krista Anna Belševica // Online magazine Punctum, 2017 [LV]

Gerald Jatzek. Latvian anthology "Mir war, als ob es klopfte" review // Litges, February 2024 [GER]

Latvian anthology "Mir war, als ob es klopfte" review // Baltbuch blogspot, October 2023 [GER]

Līvija Baumane-Andrejevska, Kedas uz Andrejsala mola. "Noskaņa, kas palika iedomās" [1]. Sajūtas, kurās negribas atgriezties [2], review of Hunting life // UbiSunt, University of Latvia, 2018 [LV]

Artis Ostups, Starp dzīvi un abstrakciju, review of Hunting life // Diena.lv, 2017 [LV]