Amanda Aizpuriete

Amanda Aizpuriete (28 March 1956 – 22 October 2023) was a Latvian poet and translator.

Biography Aizpuriete published seven collections of poems in Latvian. Her works have been translated into at least 14 languages.

Eric Funk composed a symphony for contralto and orchestra, This Eventide Seems Spoiled, using her poetry.

Aizpuriete translated works by Anna Akhmatova, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl, Joseph Brodsky and other writers.

Amanda Aizpuriete died in October 2023, at the age of 67.

Awards Notable awards included the Horst Bienek Poetry Prize from the Bavaria Academy of Art (1999), Poetry Days' Prize in Latvia (2000), and the Annual Prize in Literature for best poetry translation (2003).