High Tide (30 page)

About the Author

 

 

I
nga Ābele (born 1972) is a Latvian novelist, poet, and playwright. Her novel
High Tide
received the 2008 Latvian Literature Award for prose, and the 2009 Baltic Assembly Award in Literature. Her works have been translated into several languages, including Swedish, English, French, and Russian, and have appeared in such anthologies as
New European Poets
,
Best European Fiction 2010
, and
Short Stories without Borders: Young Writers for a New Europe
. Her most recent book,
Ants and Bumblebees
, is a collection of short stories.

About the Translator

 

 

K
aija Straumanis is a graduate of the MA program in Literary Translation at the University of Rochester, and is the editorial director of Open Letter Books. She translates from both German and Latvian.

About Open Letter

 

 

O
pen Letter—the University of Rochester's nonprofit, literary translation press—is one of only a handful of publishing houses dedicated to increasing access to world literature for English readers. Publishing ten titles in translation each year, Open Letter searches for works that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow.

 

Making world literature available in English is crucial to opening our cultural borders, and its availability plays a vital role in maintaining a healthy and vibrant book culture. Open Letter strives to cultivate an audience for these works by helping readers discover imaginative, stunning works of fiction and poetry, and by creating a constellation of international writing that is engaging, stimulating, and enduring.

 

Current and forthcoming titles from Open Letter include works from Argentina, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, and many other countries.

 

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