Andris Ogriņš

Andris Ogriņš, born in 1975, Riga, is a Latvian poet. Ogriņš obtained his secondary education at the Natālija Draudziņa Gymnasium and went on to study at the Riga Technical University. He has worked as a post officer, data entry operator, and senior manager at the Latvian Sports Museum, and a senior advertising monitoring data researcher. His poems were first published in the Kultūras Forums magazine in 2006. Ogriņš' work has since then can be found in various periodicals and web outlets. In 2007, he participated in the young and upcoming authors seminar organized by the Latvian Writers' Union. His first collection of poems Es zvēru pie kraukļiem/I Swear to Ravens (2008) received critical acclaim and earned him the Annual Latvian Literature Award for best début, as well as the Excellence Prize from the International Writers' and Translators' House and Ventspils City Council. 2011 saw the publishing of Andris Orgiņš' second book of poems Zem pulksteņa pulkstenis/Clock Under Clock. In 2015, his collection Plaukstu šķērsielas/Palm Intersections was published. His fourth and most recent book Debesu punkti Dots in the Skies came out in 2017. Ogriņš also writes prose poems, some of which have been compiled and published in Pēdējā santīma grāmata/The Last Santim Book in 2012.