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On Friday, December 8, at 11:00, Ventspils Children's Library, concluding the project "Reading Laboratory" financially supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, invites you to a meeting with fantasy and science fiction author Jane Steinberg.
Džeina Šteinberga, also known as Džeina Tamuļeviča, is a writer, journalist, public relations specialist, author of advertising texts and ideas. Graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia. She honed her writing skills in journalism and public relations. She plays the keyboards in the symphonic metal band “Oceanpath”. Now and then she writes a story about a different reality – in 2015, the first short story “Blue Sea Bulls” in the anthology of the same name; in 2017, the short story “Žina objektsikts” in the anthology “Piena cēla dvēseles”.
In 2020, her debut novel “The Reader” was published – a novel in the sci-fi genre, which is quite unusual for Latvian literature. The plot of the book is about a young and beautiful woman who works as a reader at the NOS corporation. Her job is to read and later analyze everything she reads and transfer it to clients in a concentrated form as knowledge. A computer chip is implanted in her head, which, when connected to the human brain, is able to work with a huge amount of data at incredible speed. But one day, a problem arose in the connection between Anna and the computer, and gradually unwanted side effects begin to appear in her consciousness.
The novel "The Reader" was included in the collection "Children, Youth and Parents Jury 2021", was recognized as the best in the age category 15+. The content of the book was used in Latvian language and literature olympiads for students, as well as included in the educational curriculum.
In the 2021 “Pandemic Stories” category of “Prose Readings,” Jane’s story “The Burial Ground” was recognized as one of the strongest.
