![]() ![]() In 2006, she received the Baltic Assembly Prize in literature. Ikstena is an active participant in Latvia's cultural and political life, and a co-founder of the International Writers and Translators’ House in Ventspils. Her story Elza Kuga’s Old Age Dementia was included in the "Best European Fiction 2011" anthology. Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. Soviet Milk has been translated and published in more than 20 countries. Her collection Life Stories (2004) was published in English in 2013, and Hindi in 2015. The story is based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by the renown Latvian novelist Nora Ikstena. Ikstena is also a prolific author of biographical fiction, non-fiction, scripts, essays, and collections of short prose. The novel Amour Fou has been staged for theatre, and published in Russian (2010) other works have been translated into Lithuanian, Estonian, Georgian, Swedish, Danish, etc. Soviet Milk (2015, shortlisted for the Annual Literature Award for best prose), Besa (2012), Celebration of Life (1998), The Virgin's Lesson (2001) are some of her most widely appreciated novels. ![]() In her prose, Nora Ikstena often reflects on life, love, death and faith. ![]() After obtaining a degree in Philology from the University of Latvia in 1992, she went on to study English literature at Columbia University. Ikstena is one of the most visible and influential prose writers in Latvia, known for elaborat style and detailed approach to language. Nora Ikstena is a prose writer and essayist. ![]()
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