Prose

Vilcēni [Wolf-cub]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2020. 
Mājās pārnāca basa [Home came barefoot]. Riga: Latvijas Mediji, 2018. 
Virsnieku sievas [The Officers' Wives]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2017. 
Dzimtenīte [Sweet Motherland]. Riga: Literatūras kombains, 2012. 
Ceļojums uz mēnesi: Visbija — Ventspils — Visbija [A Trip to the Moon]. Riga: Literatūras kombains, 2011.
Zemnīcas bērni [The Children of the Bunkers]. Rīga: self-published, 2010. 
Adata [The Needle]. Rīga: AGB, 2005.    

Children's Books

Uzzīmē baltu lietu [Draw A White Thing]. Riga: Aminori, 2021.
Pasaka par sniega kurmi [A Fairy Tale About A Snow Mole]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2020.
Kaķis mākoņos [Cat in the Clouds]. Riga: Latvijas Mediji, 2020.
Ceriņslotas zīmējumi [Lilac broom drawings]. Riga: Latvijas Mediji, 2019. 
Vēja vīrs un mēs [The Wind Man and Us]. Riga: Latvijas Mediji, 2018.
Kurš no mums lidos? [Which One of us is Going to Fly?]. Riga: Dienas Grāmata, 2017.
Sirds pasaka [The Heart's Tale]. Riga: self-published, 2009.

Poetry

Ziemeļu tirgus [The Northern Fair]. Riga: Literatūras kombains, 2013.                            
Betona svētnīcas [Concrete Sanctuaries]. Riga: Neputns, 2008.                            
Tranšejas dievi rok [Gods Dig the Trenches]. Riga: AGB, 2005.                         

Miscellaneous

Transcendentālā oratorija [Transcendental Oratorium]. Composer Zigmars Liepiņš, Latvian National Opera, 2014.

Books to fall for

Officers’ Wives

Officers’ Wives (Virsnieku sievas)

The minor military port Karosta is a closed army settlement situated in the northern part of Liepāja, a port town in Latvia. During the 1970s, some of its inhabitants would do Cossack dancing in the local Sailors’ Club, a venue created from the local church building, while others tried to save their uniforms from the damage of excrement in the military jail. Reminiscent of the famous Russian nesting doll, Karosta was a model in miniature of the larger empire; closed off as it was from the rest of the world by the Iron Curtain, an off-limits area that only a selected, pass-holding few could access. Here, the officers drank cognac and their wives wore French perfume. But beyond the fence, in Latvian Liepāja, life was completely different. Andra Manfelde’s novel takes an insider’s look into those territories closed off to civilians, where military classification meant physical danger for outsiders, as a retrospective parallel look at the stagnating USSR and the secrets of adultery. 

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Officers’ Wives

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Virsnieku sievas

Authors

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Andra Manfelde

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Fiction

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Rīga, Dienas grāmata

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256

Year

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2017

Foreign rights

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All rights available

Lilac broom drawings

Lilac broom drawings (Ceriņslotas zīmējumi)

Neat and tidy Anna, with blonde braids which look like tights dancing in the breeze, and the redhead Katrina, whose spiky thick hair resembles a red hedgehog, are the best of friends. One day, as they wander around the city, they notice that shadows have disappeared, the houses don’t have all their walls – they are like decorations – and the adults have disappeared! But then someone drives into this ghost town on an asphalt roller, Karr... Karmen. He takes a dried lilac broom and draws a black swatch on the wall of a house, which slowly grows wider and darker and like a river or a ribbon flows out into the city, covering everything in a dark cloud of dust.

Contact: gunta.apse@latvijasmediji.lv

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Lilac broom drawings

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Ceriņslotas zīmējumi

Authors

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Andra Manfelde

Illustrators

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Andra Manfelde

Genre

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Childrens-book

Publisher

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Latvijas Mediji

Pages

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144

Year

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2019

Foreign rights

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All languages available