Laura Vinogradova (born 1984) is a
Latvian writer. She studied business at
Riga Technical University. Coming to writing rather late, she published her first book in 2017: a children's book titled ''Snīpulītis no Snīpuļciema'' (''Baby Long Nose from the Long Nose Village''). She followed this up with two books of short stories: ''izelpas'' (''exhalations'', 2018) and ''Lāču kalns'' (''Bear Hill'', 2018). Her most recent book ''Upe'' (''The River'', 2020) was shortlisted for the
Annual Latvian Literature Award; it also won the 2021
EU Prize for Literature
The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ...
.
Vinogradova lives in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
where she works in a museum.
References
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1984 births
Living people
21st-century Latvian women writers