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Zenta Maurina (1897–1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was the first in Latvia to be awarded a doctorate in philology. She was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. A fascinating, unique story about the childhood and youth of a gifted, intelligent and wealthy girl born into a wealthy family, struggling with the consequences of paralysis of the legs acquired at the age of five. In her characteristic, colorful and brilliant style, Zenta Maurina depicts her intellectual and aesthetic growth in the circle of a loving and privileged family, while at the same time confronting the prejudices of the society of the time, both about the role of women in society and the place of a “crippled” person among her healthy fellow human beings.
