Inga Žolude
Inga Žolude is a Latvian writer and translator. She studied English literature at the University of Latvia, before winning a Fulbright scholarship to attend Southern Illinois University in the USA. At present, she is pursuing a PhD at the University of Latvia.
Žolude's first novel Silta zeme was published in 2008. She has written two more novels since: Sarkanie bērni and Santa Biblia. Red Children won the Latvian Writers' Union prize as well as the Raimonds Gerkens prize.
Žolude has published several collections of short stories. She won the EU Prize for Literature for her 2010 collection Mierinājums Ādama kokam. She has also written several plays.
As a translator, Žolude has translated works by Philip Larkin and Robert Crawford. Her own work has been translated into numerous languages, including English, German, French, Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Czech and Bulgarian.
Žolude has been a member of the Latvian Writers' Union since 2010.
