Kārlis Vērdiņš receives the Baltic Assembly Prize

On 22 October 2026, the Baltic Assembly Prizes were presented in Tallinn in the fields of literature, the arts and science, alongside the entrepreneur innovation award and several medals.

Among the laureates was Kārlis Vērdiņš, leading researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia, who together with Valts Ernštreits, Director of the LivonianInstitute at the University of Latvia, received the Baltic Assembly Prize in Literature for their poetry collection "Livonian Ballads".

Congratulations to the laureates!