The Girl Who Learned All The Languages Of The World
Ieva Flamingo - Paperback
£6.99
Ieva Flamingo (the pen name of Ieva Samauska) is one of the most prolific Latvian children’s authors writing today. She has been a journalist at various newspapers and magazines for over twenty years, and for the last ten years has worked at Ieva, Latvia’s biggest weekly magazine. She won the Pastariņš Prize for Latvian Children’s Literature in 2015 and her books have been nominated for the International Jānis Baltvilks Baltic Sea Region Award four times. Her first collection of lyrical poems, Kā uzburt sniegu/How to conjure up snow (liels un mazs, 2006), was adapted for the Latvian National Theatre in 2007. Ieva lives in Saldus, a small town in Latvia, with her family, three cats and a white dog. Chein Shyan Lee is an illustrator based in Malaysia. She is a graduate of Birmingham City University, with a BA (Hons) in Visual Communications, specialising in illustration. Her interests include children’s book illustration, editorial, reportage drawing, branding, printmaking and embroidery. Her work reflects her persistence and attention to detail. Her illustrations featured in Once Upon A Time In Birmingham: Women Who Dared To Dream, a collection of real-life stories about inspirational Birmingham women, published by the Emma Press in 2018. You can find her on Instagram @cheinshyan Žanete Vēvere Pasqualini works as a literary agent for the Latvian Literature platform and translates in her spare time. Her translation of Kristine Ulberga's "The Green Crow" was published by Peter Owen Publishers, and she translated the stories "The Birds of Ķīpsala Island" by Dace Rukšāne and "The Shakes" by Svens Kuzmins for "The Book of Riga", published by Comma Press in 2018, as well as "The Quarry" by Jana Egle (for Words Without Borders). Her other translations in English include: "The Noisy Classroom" by Ieva Flamingo (children's poetry, published by the Emma Press), "Dog Town" by Luīze Pastore (a children's book, published by Firefly) and the forthcoming Bicki-Books poetry series for children (Emma Press, 2019). Žanete is currently working on translating "The Room", novel by Laima Kota.