Amanda Aizpuriete (28 March 1956 – 22 October 2023) was a Latvian poet and translator.
[citation needed] Eric Funk composed a symphony for contralto and orchestra, This Eventide Seems Spoiled, using her poetry.
Aizpuriete translated works by Anna Akhmatova, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl, Joseph Brodsky and other writers.
[citation needed] Amanda Aizpuriete died in October 2023, at the age of 67.
[1] Notable awards included the Horst Bienek Poetry Prize from the Bavaria Academy of Art (1999), Poetry Days' Prize in Latvia (2000), and the Annual Prize in Literature for best poetry translation (2003).