I loved the sound of her voice when she sang me the lndian folksong.

I loved the sound of her voice when she sang me the Indian folksong.

• Grand Medal of the Latvian Academy of Sciences for distinguished work on oral literature and Latvian folksongs, 1997

At the same time she did scholarly research on semiotics, poetics and the structural analysis of computer-accessible texts from an oral tradition — the Latvian folksongs (Dainas).