Well-known contemporary Latvian writer Inga Abele was born in 1972, in Riga. After graduating from high school, she studied biology at Latvia University. Later, she left Riga to live in the countryside and worked as a horse trainer.

In 2001, she graduated from the faculty of Theatre and TV/Drama at the Latvian Academy of Culture. The young dramatist and writer appeared in the literary Latvian sky in 1999 and soon became popular. She wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels – it seemed that nothing was impossible for the young writer. Her plays were staged in both Riga and in Stuttgart; her books have been translated and published in Denmark, France, Sweden and Russia. Ugnis nepabudins (Fire doesn’t wake) was the first novel of Inga Abele in Lithuanian language.

In her works, I. Abele often accents the friction between the countryside and the city, expressively depicting dramatic relations between people and nature. In 2003, her short story “The Loving Years” was included in the European writers’ anthology.

In 2007, the publishing house “Versus aureus” published and presented in the Vilnius Book Fair Inga Abele’s famous novels, Ugnis nepabudins (Fire doesn’t wake).