![]() ![]() ![]() Against the expectations of the Soho editor, it became a best-seller and was translated into several languages. ![]() ![]() After her meeting with the editor from Soho Press, she returned to Latvia and published her first novel, Celebration of Life. If you want to be a famous writer, you need to stay in New York and you need to start write in English.” And now I'm saying “Hello Soho,” still writing in Latvian.Ĭolin Gioia Connors: Nora Ikstena is one of Latvia’s best known writers today. And then he said to me, “Nora, let's talk now seriously. So we met in the downtown in a pub, and then he said that he went to see this crazy girl from this unknown country who just, you know, putting her excerpts in English and just, you know, sending to the biggest publishing houses to New York. And of course I didn't have any answers, but I had an answer from Soho Press, and the editor, yes, an editor wrote that he wanted to meet me. I had a writing grant, and what I did, I printed out the excerpts of my first novel, Celebration of Life, translated by my friend Banuta Rubess, and I just, you know, I looked for the addresses of the biggest publishing houses in New York, and I put these excerpts in envelopes, and I sent them. Nora Ikstena: I had a very interesting episode when I went, I was 28 years old, I went to New York. ![]()
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