Daina Tabuna

Daina Tabuna (1985) is a Latvian writer. She graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture, specializing in theater, film, and TV drama. Since 2000, she has been publishing prose and articles in cultural media. Her short story collection Pirmā reize (The First Time) was shortlisted for the Latvian Literature Annual Award (LaLiGaBa) in 2014 as the best debut of the year. Tabuna’s stories have been published in the United Kingdom by The Emma Press under the title The Secret Box. Her works have been translated into Lithuanian, Slovenian, German, and Chinese. Tabuna has also published a children’s book, Lasis Stasis un Atlantijas okeāns (Salmon Stasis and the Atlantic Ocean), which was shortlisted for the Latvian Literature Award in the “Best Children’s Book” category. In 2023, her debut novel, Raganas (The Witches), was published and nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature as well as the Latvian Literature Annual Award.

Published by Partizanska knjiga: Veštice.

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