Soviet Milk

About the Author and Translator

AUTHOR

Nora Ikstena was born in 1969 in Riga, Latvia. She studied at the University of Latvia before moving to New York. On her return to the Baltics she helped establish the Latvian Literature Center. She published her first novel Celebration of Life in 1998 and has written over twenty books since. She has won numerous awards such as the Order of the Three Stars for services to literature and the Baltic Assembly Prize. Soviet Milk, her most recent novel, won the 2015 Annual Latvian Literature Award (LALIGABA) for Best Prose along with the Dzintars Sodums Prize.

TRANSLATOR

Margita Gailitis has translated some of Latvia’s finest poetry and prose into English, including Sandra Kalniete’s With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows and Māra Zālīte’s Five Fingers. Soviet Milk is her first translation for Peirene Press.