K\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161 | Latvia<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>(b. 1979 in Riga ) – poet, critic, translator, and author of academic papers and monographs. He completed his studies in culture theory at Latvian Academy of Culture. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in literature at the University of Latvia. Since 2007,\u00a0 he has been working at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia. He\u2019s also a member of the editorial team at the literary magazine \u201cLatvju Teksti\u201d. He has translated works by T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams and many contemporary American poets. He\u2019s been publishing his works since 1997 and is considered one of the most mature and outstanding representatives of the youngest generation of poets. His own poems have been included in various collections in English and have been translated into Lithuanian, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Basque and others. In 2014 one of his poems \u2013 Come to Me \u2013 was named by London Southbank Centre\u2019s experts one of 50 greatest contemporary love poems of our times. K\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161\u2019 poetry is delicate, lively and intimate; it often discloses uncomfortable truths in a witty, penetrating way. His\u00a0 themes include love, sex, coming to terms with oneself that he discusses with great compassion, wit and irony. His works have been translated into several languages and included in the anthology of young poets from Central and East Europe A FineLine (Arc Publications, 2004).\u00a0 <\/span>In 2001, he received the Diena Culture Award, in 2006, the Copyright Infinity Award and, in 2007, the Olivereto Prize, awarded for his poem Soldiers. V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161 won the Poetry Prize in 2008 for the book of poems \u201cEs\u201d and in 2015 for\u201d <\/span>Pieaugu\u0161ie\u201d. In 2017, he was awarded the Janis Baltvilks International Baltic Assembly Prize for the collection of children\u2019s poetry \u201cTetis\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"a](\"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.warsztatykultury.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Verdins_Karlis.jpg\" "\\"Verdins_Karlis\\"")
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(b. 1979 in Riga ) – poet, critic, translator, and author of academic papers and monographs. He completed his studies in culture theory at Latvian Academy of Culture. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in literature at the University of Latvia. Since 2007,\u00a0 he has been working at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia. He\u2019s also a member of the editorial team at the literary magazine \u201cLatvju Teksti\u201d. He has translated works by T.S.Eliot, William Carlos Williams and many contemporary American poets. He\u2019s been publishing his works since 1997 and is considered one of the most mature and outstanding representatives of the youngest generation of poets. His own poems have been included in various collections in English and have been translated into Lithuanian, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Slovenian, Basque and others. In 2014 one of his poems \u2013 Come to Me \u2013 was named by London Southbank Centre\u2019s experts one of 50 greatest contemporary love poems of our times. K\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161\u2019 poetry is delicate, lively and intimate; it often discloses uncomfortable truths in a witty, penetrating way. His\u00a0 themes include love, sex, coming to terms with oneself that he discusses with great compassion, wit and irony. His works have been translated into several languages and included in the anthology of young poets from Central and East Europe A FineLine (Arc Publications, 2004).\u00a0 <\/span>In 2001, he received the Diena Culture Award, in 2006, the Copyright Infinity Award and, in 2007, the Olivereto Prize, awarded for his poem Soldiers. V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161 won the Poetry Prize in 2008 for the book of poems \u201cEs\u201d and in 2015 for\u201d <\/span>Pieaugu\u0161ie\u201d. In 2017, he was awarded the Janis Baltvilks International Baltic Assembly Prize for the collection of children\u2019s poetry \u201cTetis\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/span><\/div>Books<\/h2>\n<\/div>