The Sea Library by the Baltic Sea is a private library in an old wooden house in Jūrmala, Latvia, where Anna lives with her husband, two sons and their dog Nemo.
This magic and magical room filled with art, driftwood and nearly 1000 books about the sea – most of them donated by writers, publishers and readers – is open by appointment to sea people from all over the world. Books can be browsed online and borrowed by post as well.
Sea Library was opened in 2018 and has been featured on BBC Radio 4, Literary Hub, Caught by the River, Sirene Journal, Seaborne Magazine, also in newspapers and design magazines in Latvia.
Anna’s muse and guardian angel is British whale-and-water-writer Philip Hoare and library’s godmother – British artist and captain of the Ark Embrace Angela Cockayne.
It is a passion project, a living sea being, born on the brink of imagination and sustained with no funding.
Love is the currency.
During the day, Anna works at the National Library of Latvia.
On starry nights, she is dreaming of a published book.
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