Since 1960 at least 320 individual translations into English from the three Baltic countries have been published. In other words, a minimum of 320 books of poetry and prose, by ind
She loves so demandingly wanting to prove she isn’t a mistake on the map of the world sticking her stories into the cracks of the house’s fissured wall She demonstrates so desp
It was on a publishers’ visit to Latvia in 2015 that we at Arc Publications first encountered Orbita. Intrigued by this group of Russian-speaking Latvian poets who appeared to be
Inga Žolude’s Stories are about how we observe ourselves and others, and how we interpret those observations to transform our experiences, both as writers – as many of Žolude
In Moon Theatre, Ieva Melgalve creates a dark world of actors playing roles in a perpetual soap opera, their lives taking whatever path the mysterious and unseen scriptwriters choo
In this, her memoir, Valentīna Freimane talks about pre-war Paris and Berlin, about legendary film stars she has seen close up, and about regular trips as a teenager from Riga to
The Birds of Paradise is the sequel to Māra Zālīte’s first biographical novel Five Fingers and is about her family’s return to Latvia and how she learns to adapt to the new
Māris Bērziņš’s The Taste of Lead takes place between 1939 and 1941 in Latvia. Although this is right at the start of WWII, the charming uncertainty its narrator feels rega
Nations are sometimes defined by borders, but more interestingly by language. Latvia is thus defined by a language spoken by fewer than two million people worldwide; that’s less
Reading this book is like plunging head-first into deep water. You don’t know what awaits – either in the depths, or even right under the surface. You quickly learn, however, t
