Dace Meiere, the winner of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Artist Residencies project, has been visiting the International Centre for Translators and Writers in Nida for several weeks .
Dace Meiere was born in Latvia, grew up surrounded by books, and has always read widely and studied languages. He studied in Latvia, Lithuania and Italy. She has been translating books since 1996 and has now translated around 500 works from Italian, Lithuanian, Spanish and Catalan. Among the Italian authors she has translated are Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Alessandro Baricco, Curzio Malaparte, Italo Calvino, Paolo Giordano; Javier Marías, Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Spanish and Jaume Cabré in Catalan. Recently, she has been translating mainly Lithuanian authors, including Kristina Sabaliauskaitė, Vidas Morkūnas, Sigitas Parulskis, Undinė Radzevičiūtė, Kotryna Zylė and others. Dace is working hard during her residency, finishing translations that should have been in Latvian bookshops long ago. Dace also walks by the seaside almost every evening, looking for amber and watching the returning birds.
The successful development of the Artist Residencies project contributes to multilateral cultural and cognitive exchanges, and provides an opportunity for international cooperation between artists and their residency organisations.
Funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
