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Inga Ābele is a writer and playwright born in 1972 in Riga. She began studies in biology at the University of Latvia, then left Riga to live in the country and worked as a horse trainer. Following that she studied Drama at the Latvian Academy of Culture. She is a poet and playwright and has written screenplays as well as short stories and a novel; one of the most popular, unconventional and prolific authors of the youngest generation of Latvian writers. Her debut collection of short stories Akas maja (The Well House) was published in 1999 to critical acclaim. In the same year, she received an award for her play Tumšie brieži (Dark Deer), published in Latvia’s literary monthly magazine Karogs (Flag) and later staged at theatres in Riga and Valmiera, at the Stuttgart State Theatre in 2002, and the Bonner Biennale (2002) as well. Dzelzzale (Iron Weed, 2001) was staged in Latvia , Denmark and Finland . Her play Jasmins (Jasmine) premiered in May 2003 through the Independent Theatre Company “United Intimacy”, and will be staged in Lucerne, Switzerland in April 2007, directed by Peter Carp. Her collection of poetry, Nakts pragmatike (Night Pragmatist), appeared in 2000 and the novel Uguns nemodina (Fire Will Not Wake You) in 2001; the latter published in Lithuanian in 2007. Another collection of short stories, Sniega laika piezimes (Notes During the Time of Snow), won the Annual Award for Literature in 2004, and a book of selected stories titled Still Life With Pomegranate was published in French translation by L’Archange Minotaure, France, in 2005. Her most recent collection of poetry is Atgāzenes stacijas zirgi (The Horses of Atgazene Station), 2006.