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Amanda Aizpuriete (Latvia) is a poet and translator. Born
in 1956, she is author of numerous collections. She has translated
the works of many important twentieth century writers and
poets from German, English, Russian and Ukrainian including
Georg Trakl, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Ken Kesey, Joseph
Brodsky, John Updike and recently Ahmatova. Several selections
of Aizpuriete's poetry have been published in Germany to great
critical acclaim. In 1999, she received the prestigious Horst
Bienek Prize. In 2002, her selected poems came out in Swedish
translation.
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