Writer Dace Vīgante (1970) was born in Jūrmala, Latvia. She graduated from The University of Latvia, Faculty of Law. Vīgante attended “Literary Academy” programme of the Writer’s Union. In 2017 her debut collection of stories Ledus Apelsīns [Ice Orange] was nominated for the Annual Latvian Literary Award, as well as the Kilogram of Culture Award, and received Children, Youth and Paternal Jury Award. In 2018 Vīgante published her second collection of stories Tad redzēs [Then Will See]. Vīgante's first novel "The Romantic" was published in 2022. and it is nominated for the Annual Latvian Literary Award as the best novel of the year.
Ledus okeāns [Ice Ocean]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2023.
Romantiķis [The Romantic]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2022.
Bumbulītis [Little Bump]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2020.
Tad redzēs [Then Will See]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2018.
Ledus apelsīns [Ice Orange]. Riga: Zvaigzne ABC, 2016.
Books to fall for

Ice Orange
Ice Orange (Ledus apelsīns)
Psychologically nuanced and dense with detail, the stories in her debut collection Ice Orange are mostly about women whose lives were shaped by the 20th century, a time when people learned to understand each other more from what was unsaid, when each step seemed to be both more difficult and more meaningful than it is now. These sketches of lives, from childhood through adulthood – both the minor as well as significant dramas – are full of familiar emotions, nostalgic details, and unspoken secrets. The stories in this short collection offer quick reads that will nonetheless leave a tangible impression, allowing insight into life through the prism of Vīgante’s marvelous and delicate prose.
Contact: Bārbala Simsone, barbala.simsone@zvaigzne.lv
IceOrange_by_D.Vigante.pdf

Title
:Ice Orange
Title*
:Ledus apelsīns
Authors
:Genre
:Fiction
Publisher
:Zvaigzne ABC
Pages
:174
Year
:2016
Foreign rights
:All languages available

We Shall See
We Shall See (Tad redzēs)
The nine stories in the collection We Shall See continue and add to the spectrum of themes already touched upon in Vīgante’s debut collection, Ice Orange – the most prominent being the complicated relationships between people throughout time. Vīgante’s prose possesses a specific “quiet” style, as it includes no loud epithets or overtly dramatic dialogues – and it is precisely this veiled approach that allows Vīgante to convey the “inner dramas” of her characters so well. The stories are often explicitly visual, concentrating, as it seems, on abundant detail; however, Vīgante manages to include the symbolic subtext in each visual image as well. The stories are largely set in a modern environment and feature average people – men or women around 30-40 years of age who have witnessed the dramatic political and social changes at the turn of the century, but nevertheless hold survival and personal happiness as their main goals in life. This allows readers to identify with the characters and situations, however complicated they are, because the familiarity of the environment and the details make it easy to do so.
Contact: Bārbala Simsone, barbala.simsone@zvaigzne.lv
WeShallSee_by_D.Vigante.pdf

Title
:We Shall See
Title*
:Tad redzēs
Authors
:Genre
:Fiction
Publisher
:Zvaigzne ABC
Pages
:112
Year
:2018
Foreign rights
:All languages available
About Ice Orange // laligaba.lv, 2017 [LV]
Conversation with Dace Vīgante // nra.lv, 2016 [LV]
Ilva Skulte, Stāsti bez morāles, review of Little Bump // Online magazine Punctum, 2020 [LV]
Lāsma Gaitniece, Dieviešu sarunas un Maskava olimpiādes gadā, review of Little Bump // LA.lv, 2020 [LV]
Bārbala Simsone, Dvēseļu seismogrāfs, review of Then Will See // Diena.lv, 2018 [LV]
Ilze Jansone, Atsvešinātības vijumi, review of Ice Orange // Internet magazine Punctum.lv, 2016 [LV]
2018, nominated for the Kilogram of Culture Award for Then Will See
2017, Children, Youth and Paternal Jury Award for Ice Orange
2017, shortlisted for the Annual Latvian Literature Award for Ice Orange
2016, nominated for the Kilogram of Culture Award for Ice Orange