Ratkevich Eleonora (née Skorik) (18 July 1961, Riga) — writer.

In 1984 Eleonora Ratkevich graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Latvian State University. Worked at the Republican Scientific and Technical Library and at the Riga Medical Institute, from where she left to teach at a secondary school. Married, has a son.

Made her literary debut in 1991 in the newspaper Diena with the fantasy novella Closer than Death and Further than Happiness. She is known for the novel cycle The Wooden Sword and other works.

Works:

The Mercenary of the Dead Gods ( Наемник мертвых богов). Moscow: AST; St. Petersburg: Terra Fantastica, 1996;

The Wooden Sword (Деревянный меч). Moscow: AST, 1997;

The Sword’s Hilt (Рукоять меча). Moscow: AST, 2000;

The Sword without a Hilt (Меч без рукояти). Moscow: AST, 2001;

Paradoxes of the Junior Patriarch (Парадоксы младшего патриарха). Moscow: AST, 2003.