The Virtual Writing University Archive

The Virtual Writing University Archive is a collection of recordings of literary readings, panel discussions, and lectures around The University of Iowa and Iowa City. You may search or browse these recordings to find those you want to hear. The Writing University Archive is a project of the School of Library and Information Science in collaboration with the writing community at Iowa.

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Gundega Repše Interview

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Latvian writer Gundega Repše discusses the challenges she and other writers face in her country and in Eastern Europe in the wake of their independence from the Soviet Union.

In: International Writing Program Archive

Authors: Gundega Repše

Date Recorded: January 01, 1996

Program: --

Format: interview

Topics: Eastern European literature; modernism and post-modernism in post-Soviet Latvia; creativity in periods of social transition;

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