Latvian rights to Viivi Luik’s Shadow Play sold to Mansards - Elina Ahlback Literary Agency - One of the leading Nordic literary agenciesElina Ahlback Literary Agency – One of the leading Nordic literary agencies

The Latvian publisher Apgads Mansards has bought the Latvian rights to Viivi Luik’s award-winning novel Shadow Play (Varjuteater, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus 2010). Mansards has previously published Viivi Luik’s poetry.

Shadow Play won the 2010 Cultural Award of the Republic of Estonia – a prize awarded to Viivi Luik also in 1992 for her novel The Beauty of History (Ajaloo ilu). Luik is one of the most treasured writers of contemporary Estonian literature and enjoys an international reputation as a novelist and poet.

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