Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė

Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė (1923-2007) was a Lithuanian poet, novelist, playwright and actress. Pūkelevičiūtė is often credited as one of the strongest and most unique voices in Lithuanian literature, both from an émigrée perspective and within the Lithuanian framework.

After studying journalism at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Pūkelevičiūtė left for Germany in 1944 and subsequently settled in Canada in 1948, where she assembled an amateur theatre group in Montreal and published her first poetry collection Metūgės. Metūgės was met with scandal within the Lithuanian literary community, as it was the first time a woman writing feminist, erotic, sexual poetry was published in Lithuanian.

Pūkelevičiūtė returned to Lithuania in 1998 and lived

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