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Arvis Viguls (born 1987 in Latvia) is a student at the Latvian Academy of Art and is a poet and translator and writes for a literary radio programme. He received the Poetry Days Prize Latvian Writers Union’s Annual Award for First Collection of the Year for his first collection of poems, Istaba. Last year he won the Anna Dagda’s Prize for the manuscript of his second collection, 5 am, which is forthcoming in 2012. Arvis Viguls ´translates poetry from the English (Walt Whitman), Spanish (Frederico García Lorca) and Russian (Joseph Brodsky). In 2010 he took part in the international Transpoesie project in Brussels with his poem ‘Durvis’ (The Doors).
Publications:
Istaba (Satori 2009)