Laima Muktupāvela
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| birth_place = Rēzekne, Latvian SSR
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| alma_mater = University of Latvia
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| notableworks = Šampinjonu Derība (The Mushroom Testament)
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Laima Muktupāvela Kota (born 20 January 1962{{cite web|title=Ontona Slišāna gruomatas "Cipierkstneits" personu lopuruods|url=http://www.bibliotekas.lv/upite/pages/novadpetnieciba/ontona-slisana-gruomatas-cipierkstneits-personu-lopuruods.php|language=lv|accessdate=8 March 2015|publisher=Upītes Bibliotēka|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229145558/http://www.bibliotekas.lv/upite/pages/novadpetnieciba/ontona-slisana-gruomatas-cipierkstneits-personu-lopuruods.php|url-status=dead}} in Rēzekne) is a Latvian author.{{cite web|title=Laima Muktupāvela|url=https://www.literature.lv/en/dbase/autors.php?id=118|website=literature.lv|accessdate=7 March 2015}}{{cite web|title=Muktupāvela Laima|url=http://www.letonika.lv/groups/default.aspx?r=3&q=suiti&id=1736084&g=1|website=letonika.lv|publisher=Tilde|accessdate=7 March 2015|language=lv}}
Life
Muktupāvela was born in 1962 and she graduated with a History degree in 1989. She worked at various jobs until she became a full-time writer in 2000 after working part-time on published works for seven years. She won a prize for her work Šampinjonu Derība (The Mushroom Testament). She is now married to a Turkish poet and says that she will publish further work under her married name.{{cite web|last1=Sergejeva|first1=Santa|title=Laima Kota-Muktupāvela: turki spēj mīlēties līdz sirmam vecumam|url=http://sejas.tvnet.lv/pikanti/421031-laima_kotamuktupavela_turki_spej_mileties_lidz_sirmam_vecumam|publisher=Sejas|accessdate=10 March 2015|language=Latvian|date=20 May 2012|archive-date=27 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827142756/http://sejas.tvnet.lv/pikanti/421031-laima_kotamuktupavela_turki_spej_mileties_lidz_sirmam_vecumam|url-status=dead}}
She has converted to the Islamic religion in 2011.{{cite web|last1=Казачок|first1=Ольга|title=Ведущая латышская писательница выходит замуж за турка и принимает ислам|url=http://www.kompromat.lv/item.php?docid=readn&id=7032|publisher=kompromat|accessdate=10 March 2015|language=Russian|date=10 May 2011}}
= Novels =
- Šampinjonu Derība (The Mushroom Testament)
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