Writer Inga Žolude will be the guest at the “[Enter] Literature” conversation series

At Sigulda’s “Valhalla Lounge”, Pils Street 8A, the October conversation in the “[Enter] Literature” series will take place. Guntars Godiņš has invited writer Inga Žolude.

Conversation topics: the creative writing camp “Rakstivāls” - how to become a writer?; why yoga, which Inga Žolude practices; we will discuss novels and short story collections, including the latest novel “Father”, and you will hear excerpts read by the author.

Latvian writer Inga Žolude (1984) has been publishing prose since 2002. For her short story collection “Solace for Adam’s Tree” (2010), she received the European Union Prize for Literature. She has written the novels “Warm Land”, “Red Children”, “Santa Biblia”, “Materia botanica”, and within the “I Am...” series, the biographical novel “The Lotus Flower of Venden” about the Latvian writer and poet Jānis Poruks was published. In 2026, the author’s latest work was published - the autobiographical novel “Father”, which has been well received by readers. She has also written the short story collections “Solace for Adam’s Tree”, “Stories”, the novella “1904. Melancholic Waltz”, and together with the Estonian writer and historian Tõnu/??