Zenta Mauriņa

Zenta Mauriņa
Mauriņa in 1958
Born(1897-12-15)15 December 1897
Lejasciems, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died25 April 1978(1978-04-25) (aged 80)
Basel, Switzerland
Occupationwriter, essayist
NationalityLatvian
GenreProse
SpouseKonstantīns Raudive

Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. She was nominated for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.