{"id":3305,"date":"2026-07-21T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:50:32","slug":"arvis-viguls-latvija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/arvis-viguls-latvija\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvis Viguls (Latvia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><p>Arvis Viguls was born in 1987 in J\u0113kabpils, Latvia. He is the author of four critically acclaimed poetry collections and a translator from English, Spanish, Russian, and South Slavic languages, as well as an editor at the literary magazine <em>Str\u0101va<\/em> (Current). He has received the Latvian Annual Literature Prize for best debut (2009) and best translation (2022), among other awards. In 2017, the international literary project Literary Europe Live selected him as one of ten New Voices from Europe, and in 2022, he was shortlisted for the European Poet of Freedom Award 2024, an international literary prize organized by the city of Gda\u0144sk. His most recent published translations are the short story collection <em>Encyclopedia of the Dead<\/em> by Danilo Ki\u0161 and the selected poetry of Ted Hughes (both 2023). His own work has been translated and published in more than 20 languages, including books of selected poems in Spanish, German, and Croatian. His latest poetry collection <em>Blusu cirks<\/em> (Flea Circus, 2021) will be published as a Polish translation in 2023.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvis Vigulis gim\u0117 1987 m. Jekabpilyje. Studijavo Latvijos kult\u016bros akademijoje ir Latvijos dail\u0117s akademijoje (Ryga). Keturi\u0173 poezijos rinkini\u0173 autorius, naujausias<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}