Balts' Award

The Balts' Award (Latvian: Baltu balva, Lithuanian: Baltų apdovanojimas) is an annual award given to recognise excellence and achievements in the areas of Latvian-Lithuanian culture, history and language.[1][2][3]

The award was inaugurated in 2018.[4][5]

List of recipients

  • 2023: Edmundas Trumpa, Lithuanian linguist[6]
  • 2022: Dace Meiere, Latvian translator[7]
  • 2020: Alberts Sarkanis, Latvian philologist and diplomat[8]
  • 2019: Alvydas Butkus, Lithuanian linguist[9]
  • 2018: Laimute Balode, Latvian Lithuanian professor and linguist[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The contest announced for the first Balts' Award". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania. 12 April 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Latvia, Lithuania establish Balts' Award". The Baltic Times. 12 January 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Latvian and Lithuanian foreign ministers to present the first Balts Award next week". The Baltic Course. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b "First 'Balts award' winner named". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Linguist Balodė receives 1st Balts' award in ceremony in Riga". Delfi. BNS. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Balts Award presented during Kariņš' trip to Lithuania". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 17 October 2023. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  7. ^ "Balts' Award goes to translator Dace Meiere". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 15 September 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Lexicographer wins annual Balts' Award". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 22 September 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Lithuanian lexicographer lionized with Balts award in Vilnius". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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