Liana Langa | Latvia<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Liana Langa (real name <\/span>Li\u0101na Bok\u0161a, b. 1960 in Riga), poet, studied in Biruta Delles\u2019 painting studio and at the Faculty of Philology at the\u00a0 Latvian State University (1979-81). She\u2019s been publishing her work since 1988. In 1991 she went to the USA where she studied philosophy and 20th-century literature at New School College. She worked as a Russian and English translator. She was a consultant for the project <\/span>Literature Express \/ Europe 2000. Her poetry can be described as intellectual. It objects to post-war Latvian poetry through resignation from naivety and images of idealised humanity. It\u2019s devoid of pathos. Langa\u2019s poetry skilfully balances grotesque, ugly, and even disharmonic elements with detached but tangible love and honesty devoid of sentimental neurasthenia. Her poetry is rooted in the observation of everyday situations, but she also creates it via meditational observations. She\u2019s the author of four volumes of poetry. In 2010 she published the collection\u00a0 \u201cVilkogas\u201d featuring poems written between 2006-2010. In the same year, she also published the audiobook \u201cEs p\u0113k\u0161\u0146i atmodosno dzi\u013ca miega\/ klaus\u0101mgr\u0101mata\u201d where the poet reads her poems from the collections\u00a0 “Iep\u016bt taur\u012bt\u0113, Skorpion!” (2001), “Antenu burtn\u012bca” (2006) and “Vilkogas”(2010).\u00a0 Langa has written the libretto to Arturs Maskats\u2019 opera \u201cValentina\u201d that focuses on Holocaust events in Latvia. She\u2019s the creator and screenplay writer for the documentaries\u00a0 \u201cTramvajs v\u0101rd\u0101 Kalpot\u0101js\u201d (2004) and \u201cHomo Ludens\u201d(2015), the author of songs for the musical \u201cRaimondsa Paulsa Leo\u201d, \u201cP\u0113d\u0113j\u0101bohema\u201d (2010). Along with Knut Skujenieks and Edv\u012bn Raupsemjest she co-founded The National Writers’ Fund (Nacion\u0101l\u0101s Rakstniec\u012bbas atbalsta fonds). <\/span>She is actively involved in improving national culture policies and serves as a spokesperson on civic issues on top of her work as a publicist. <\/span>Langa is the recipient of the Latvian Poetry Day Award (1998 and 2006) and the Annual Award in Literature in 2001 and 2011.\u00a0 Her poetry <\/span>\u00a0has been translated into English, German, French, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, and other languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"a](\"https:\/\/wydawnictwo.warsztatykultury.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Langa_Liana.jpg\" "\\"Langa_Liana\\"")
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Liana Langa (real name <\/span>Li\u0101na Bok\u0161a, b. 1960 in Riga), poet, studied in Biruta Delles\u2019 painting studio and at the Faculty of Philology at the\u00a0 Latvian State University (1979-81). She\u2019s been publishing her work since 1988. In 1991 she went to the USA where she studied philosophy and 20th-century literature at New School College. She worked as a Russian and English translator. She was a consultant for the project <\/span>Literature Express \/ Europe 2000. Her poetry can be described as intellectual. It objects to post-war Latvian poetry through resignation from naivety and images of idealised humanity. It\u2019s devoid of pathos. Langa\u2019s poetry skilfully balances grotesque, ugly, and even disharmonic elements with detached but tangible love and honesty devoid of sentimental neurasthenia. Her poetry is rooted in the observation of everyday situations, but she also creates it via meditational observations. She\u2019s the author of four volumes of poetry. In 2010 she published the collection\u00a0 \u201cVilkogas\u201d featuring poems written between 2006-2010. In the same year, she also published the audiobook \u201cEs p\u0113k\u0161\u0146i atmodosno dzi\u013ca miega\/ klaus\u0101mgr\u0101mata\u201d where the poet reads her poems from the collections\u00a0 “Iep\u016bt taur\u012bt\u0113, Skorpion!” (2001), “Antenu burtn\u012bca” (2006) and “Vilkogas”(2010).\u00a0 Langa has written the libretto to Arturs Maskats\u2019 opera \u201cValentina\u201d that focuses on Holocaust events in Latvia. She\u2019s the creator and screenplay writer for the documentaries\u00a0 \u201cTramvajs v\u0101rd\u0101 Kalpot\u0101js\u201d (2004) and \u201cHomo Ludens\u201d(2015), the author of songs for the musical \u201cRaimondsa Paulsa Leo\u201d, \u201cP\u0113d\u0113j\u0101bohema\u201d (2010). Along with Knut Skujenieks and Edv\u012bn Raupsemjest she co-founded The National Writers’ Fund (Nacion\u0101l\u0101s Rakstniec\u012bbas atbalsta fonds). <\/span>She is actively involved in improving national culture policies and serves as a spokesperson on civic issues on top of her work as a publicist. <\/span>Langa is the recipient of the Latvian Poetry Day Award (1998 and 2006) and the Annual Award in Literature in 2001 and 2011.\u00a0 Her poetry <\/span>\u00a0has been translated into English, German, French, Swedish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, and other languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/span><\/div>Books<\/h2>\n<\/div>