Inga Žolude

Inga Žolude (born 1984) is a Latvian prose writer, literary critic, essayist, teacher of creative writing, and culture manager, coordinating Latvian writers' participation at the festivals all over the world. She is the author of three novels: “Warm Earth” (2008), “Red Children” (2012) “Santa Biblia” (2013); and two collections of short stories: “Solace for Adam’s Tree” (2010) and “Stories” (2015). The collection of short stories “Solace for Adam’s Tree” received European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. It has already been published in the Polish and Hungarian languages. Stories and excerpts of her novels have been included in the anthologies in English, including the Best European Literature 2014 from Dalkey Archive Press, French, German, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Czech, and other languages.
Inga Žolude is a member of the Latvian Writers' Union since 2010, where she currently holds a position of a member of the board and a member of the expert commission. She is also an ambassador of CISAC community of artists. Inga Žolude is a member of the national juries of such literary prizes as the European Union Prize for Literature, the Baltic Assembly Prize, and the Joint Award for the Promotion of the Latvian and Estonian Languages (bestowed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia).
Inga Žolude holds a PhD in Literary studies, and has received Fulbright. fellowship