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Latvian writer Inga Abele's short story "Ants and Bumblebees", translated into English by Laura Vanaga, is among the 33 works of European writers included in the anthology of short stories "Best European Fiction 2010", published by the U.S. University of Illinois publishing house, as LETA learned from the Latvian Literature Center's project manager Arita Gutane.

Latvian public became acquainted with "Ants and Bumblebees" ("Kamenes un skudras" in Latvian) at the literary festival "Prose Readings" in 2008, where Abele received the festival's main prize. This year it has been included in the selection of stories "Stories: Prose Readings – Present and Absent", issued annually before the "Prose Readings" festival. Translation of "Ants and Bumblebees" received support from the Latvian Literature Center and the State Culture Capital Foundation.

Editor of the anthology Aleksandar Hemon writes in the preface of the publication that the short stories included in the anthology explore and sabotage various national myths, daringly doubting the substantiation of old forms in the new historic and political circumstances.