Laima Muktupāvela


Laima Muktupāvela Kota is a Latvian author.

Life

Muktupāvela was born in 1962 and she graduated with a History degree in 1989. She worked at various jobs until she became a full-time writer in 2000 after working part-time on published works for seven years. She won a prize for her work Šampinjonu Derība. She is now married to a Turkish poet and says that she will publish further work under her married name.
She has converted to the Islamic religion in 2011, married a Turkish writer, Ahmet Kot, and lives in Turkey and Latvia.

Books

  • 2002: Šampinjonu Derība
  • : 2002
  • 2002: Patiesu dzīves stāstu ducis
  • 2008: BrāliBrāli: balsu burvji brāļi Kokari
  • 2012: Mana turku kafija
  • 2020: Cilvēks ar zilo putnu ; novel about Anšlavs Eglītis