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PoetryDziesmiņas, latviešu valodai pārtulkotasJuris Alunāns · 1856not translated into EnglishLivonia in the 1850s, where young scholars want to prove that their language can carry the poetry of Europe.Literature
NovelMērnieku laikiReinis Kaudzīte and Matīss Kaudzīte · 1879not translated into EnglishThe Latvian countryside of the 1860s and 1870s, when the agrarian reform has the fields promised for peasant purchase measured.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryGaismas pilsAuseklis · 1888not translated into EnglishThe Baltic provinces of the first national awakening, where people look in legends for a Latvian antiquity.Literature
PoetryBearslayerLāčplēsisAndrejs Pumpurs · 1888Livonia in the time of the thirteenth-century crusades, told by a poet of the Latvian national awakening.Literature
PoetryLatvju dainasKrišjānis Barons · 1894not translated into EnglishLivonia and Courland at the end of the nineteenth century, where the Latvian national awakening gathers the songs of the people.Literature
PoetrySarkanās puķesAspazija · 1897not translated into EnglishLatvia in the 1890s, where a new generation of writers demands freedom and happiness for everyone.Literature
TheatreSkroderdienas SilmačosRūdolfs Blaumanis · 1902not translated into EnglishA Latvian farm at the turn of the century, during the days when the clothes for a wedding are sewn on the premises.Literature
TheatreSprīdītisAnna Brigadere · 1903not translated into EnglishA Latvian farm of former times, from which a child sets out on the roads to find out whether happiness lies elsewhere.Literature
TheatreFire and NightUguns un naktsRainis (Jānis Pliekšāns) · 1905Latvia in 1905, where a revolution has just failed and the old epic is being reread as a question about freedom.Literature
PoetryBiķerisEdvarts Virza · 1907not translated into EnglishLatvia in 1907, in the aftermath of a crushed revolution, where a young poet publishes verses of desire.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeKalpa zēna vasaraJānis Akurāters · 1908not translated into EnglishA Latvian farm over the course of a summer, dreamed by an émigré who writes far from home.Literature
NovelAijaJānis Jaunsudrabiņš · 1911not translated into EnglishA Latvian farm where people hire themselves out as farmhands, and where a boy with nothing stakes everything on a single person.Literature
TaleZiemas pasakasKārlis Skalbe · 1913not translated into EnglishLiterary fairy tales born of Latvian folk motifs, in a country emerging from a crushed revolt.Literature
Short storiesDieviņa ļaudisKārlis Štrāls · 1920not translated into EnglishLives on the margins, as Latvia emerges from the war and gives itself a state.Literature
Short storiesŠaha partijaJānis Ezeriņš · 1923not translated into EnglishLatvia, which has just given itself a state, at the moment when the short story finds its readers.Literature
PoetryZaļie vārtiZinaīda Lazda · 1936not translated into EnglishThe independent Latvia of the thirties, where a young teacher publishes her first verses on the native land.Literature
PoetryVienkārši vārdiVeronika Strēlerte · 1937not translated into EnglishIndependent Latvia at the end of the thirties, where a student of Romance languages publishes her first verses.Literature
Short storiesSmalkās kaitesĒriks Ādamsons · 1937not translated into EnglishLatvia in the thirties, where prose leaves the countryside for the recesses of inner life.Literature
EpicMūžības skartieAleksandrs Čaks · 1937not translated into EnglishThe Latvian riflemen of the Great War, celebrated twenty years later by the poet of Riga.Literature
NovelPelēkais jātnieksAleksandrs Grīns · 1938not translated into EnglishLivonia and Northern Europe around 1700, when three sovereigns contend for the Baltic.Literature
Short storiesMajestāte un pērtiķisMirdza Bendrupe · 1938not translated into EnglishLatvia at the end of the thirties, where young prose writers turn towards the inner life.Literature
PoetryVaravīksnaAndrejs Eglītis · 1939not translated into EnglishIndependent Latvia in 1939, where a young poet from Vidzeme publishes two collections in quick succession.Literature
CinemaZvejnieka dēlsVilis Lapenieks · 1940The Latvian coast of the late thirties, filmed by the state cinema of an authoritarian regime.Cinema
TaleLatvju teiksmasJānis Veselis · 1942not translated into EnglishRiga under the German occupation, where a writer of the Dievturi seeks in the ancient myths a national material.Literature
NovelHomo novusAnšlavs Eglītis · 1943not translated into EnglishRiga at the end of the thirties, when Latvian painting is divided between Paris and the national tradition.Literature
TheatreVaraMārtiņš Zīverts · 1944not translated into EnglishLithuania in 1263 and its first king, staged by a Latvian playwright in 1944.Literature
NovelZaļā zemeAndrejs Upīts · 1945not translated into EnglishThe countryside of Skrīveri, where the author grew up, seen again from afar during the war.Literature
PoetryMūžīgais mākonisLinards Tauns · 1958not translated into EnglishThe Latvian New York of the fifties, where young exiles make the great city the subject of their verse.Literature
PoetryEs esmu vasaraAina Kraujiete · 1963not translated into EnglishThe Latvian exile in New York in the early sixties, where a poet who came from medicine publishes her first book.Literature
PoetryElpaOjārs Vācietis · 1966not translated into EnglishSoviet Latvia of the thaw, where a poet long kept out of the published editions reappears in 1966.Literature
PoetryEzera kristībasAstrīde Ivaska · 1966not translated into EnglishPre-war Riga and the Latvian countryside, seen again from American exile in the mid-sixties.Literature
PoetryAtritaBaiba Bičole · 1966not translated into EnglishNew York in the mid-sixties, when a generation that left Latvia as teenagers begins to publish.Literature
PoetryMelnā sauleGunars Saliņš · 1967not translated into EnglishThe Latvian New York of the late sixties, where a New Jersey professor makes the metropolis green again in his verse.Literature
PoetryEs ieeju sevīImants Ziedonis · 1968not translated into EnglishSoviet Latvia in 1968, where poetry leaves the praise of progress for self-examination.Literature
PoetryGadu gredzeniVizma Belševica · 1969not translated into EnglishSoviet Latvia in 1969, where a poet turns to the medieval chronicle of Livonia in order to speak of the present.Literature
CinemaThe Devil's ServantsVella kalpiAleksandrs Leimanis · 1970Riga, a free city coveted by Sweden and Poland, told from the Soviet Latvia of 1970.Cinema
NovelThe CageBūrisAlberts Bels · 1972Soviet Latvia of the early seventies, where a prominent architect vanishes overnight.Literature
CinemaA Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's EveLimuzīns Jāņu nakts krāsāJānis Streičs · 1981The Latvian countryside of the early eighties, where a new car is enough to rouse a whole extended family.Cinema
CinemaIs It Easy to Be Young?Vai viegli būt jaunam ?Juris Podnieks · 1986Soviet Latvia in 1986, where a film like this one would still have been banned six months earlier.Cinema
CinemaThe CrossroadŠķērsielaIvars Seleckis · 1988Riga in 1988, when perestroika shakes the city centre and leaves its suburbs almost intact.Cinema