Māris Bērziņš

Māris Bērziņš (born 7 December 1962, in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian writer and playwright .

Biography Māris Bērziņš was born on 7 December 1962, in Riga.

In 2015, he was awarded the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature for the novel Svina garša (The Taste of Lead), which tells about the time of the Nazi occupation in Latvia.

In 2016, Linda Olte adapted his Gūtenmorgens for the screen as part of the "One Village – All of Latvia" project, initiated for the centenary of the Latvian state. In 2017, he published Gūtenmorgens. Second Time, the sequel to his successful book.

In 2018, the publishing house Dienas Grāmata launched the I Am series, in which 12 contemporary writers would each create their own biographical novel about one of 12 classics of Latvian literature. Initially, Bērziņš was slated to write about Jānis Poruks or Anšlavs Eglītis, but he was later offered the project of writing about Vilis Lācis, a Latvian novelist and politician from the Soviet era. After finishing Forbidden Piano in the spring of 2019, he began reading Lācis's works, testimonies, letters, and diaries.

Works Novels Ērika Trauma sapnis. Rīga: Pētergailis, 2003. Titāna skrūves. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2011. Sveiks, Dzintar Mihail!. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2013. Svina garša. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2015. Aizliegtais pianīns. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2019. Nākotnes kalējs. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2021.

Short stories Gūtenmorgens. Rīga: Karogs, 2007. Resnais svešinieks [story for children]. Rīga: Liels un mazs, 2008. Gūtenmorgens otrreiz. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2017. Gūtenmorgens pirm'reiz. Rīga: Dienas grāmata, 2017.

Screenplays Iztēlojies: trīs lugas. Rīga: Mansards, 2009.