Ingmara Balode Author

Ingmara Balode lives in Riga, Latvia. Her debut poetry collection, Ledenes, ar kuram var sagriezt meli (Candies to cut the tongue) (2007) was awarded the Best Debut Prize in Latvian Literature. Her poetry has been translated into Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, English, Czech and Lithuanian. She is a literary editor and translator at ... Satori, a literature and philosophy portal and publishers (www.satori.lv). She has translated extensively from Polish and English, as well as from Czech, Slovakian, and Russian. In 2010, she was awarded the Prize for Poetry Translation by the literary magazine Latvju Teksti (Latvian Writings) for her translation of selected poems by the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.