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Five Fingers
by Māra Zālīte
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Five Fingers was the winner of the 2013 Annual Latvian Literature Award for Best Prose. It is a fictionalised childhood memoir in which the author describes her family's return from Siberia in the 1950s and life in Latvia in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Author Biography
Poet and playwright MĀRA ZĀLĪTE was born in 1952 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, where her family had been deported in 1941 by the Soviet regime. When Zālīte was four years old, her family returned to Latvia. In addition to her writing career, Zālīte has worked at the Latvian Writers’ Union, served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Karogs, and headed the Latvian Copyright Agency. She is the author of five poetry collections and 21 staged plays and musicals, several children’s books, essay collections, and the novel Five Fingers (2013). She has won numerous literary award, including the prestigious J. G. Herder Prize in 1993. She is an emeritus member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Her works have been translated into several languages, including German, Russian, English, Estonian, Lithuanian, and Swedish, among others.
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- Publisher Dienas Grāmata
- Publication Date 2018
- Orginal LanguageLatvian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789934546587
- Pages304
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePieci pirksti
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