Wizyta Ingi Žolude w Polsce wspiera Kolegium Europy Wschodniej.
Inga Žolude (born 1984) is a prose writer, essayist and literary critic based in her home country of Latvia. 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). She is currently working on the sequel to her first novel “Warm Earth”, which has become a cult book in Latvian literature. Inga Žolude writes literary criticism, essays, and a column in the biggest Latvian daily newspapers Diena. Žolude has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, she is currently conducting a creative writing course at the University of Latvia and teaching at various creative writing workshops. Her works have been nominated for various awards of national significance, however the most visible award has been the European Union Prize for Literature 2011 for the collection of short stories “Solace for Adam’s Tree.” Individual stories and excerpts of her novels have been translated and published in anthologies in English, including the Best European Literature 2014 from Dalkey Archive Press, French, German, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Czech, and other languages.