High Tide

About the Author

Inga 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.