Greta Ambrazaitė
Greta Ambrazaitė (b. 1993 in Vilnius) is a poet, editor, musician, translator, and publisher. She holds an MA in Literary Anthropology and Culture from Vilnius University.
Ambrazaitė's debut poetry collection Fragile Things (Trapūs daiktai, 2018) earned the Young Yotvingian Prize as a best young poet’s book and was announced as the 2018 Poetry Book of the Year. She was awarded the Young Artist’s Prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture in 2019. Her second poetry book ADELA (2022) was awarded the Jurga Ivanauskaitė Prize and included into several best Lithuanian books’ lists.
Her poems have been translated into several foreign languages.
Ambrazaitė has translated poems by such poets as Borges, Cortázar, and Pizarnik and edited the anthology
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Mokėsi Žagarėje, dirbo bibliotekoje ir įvairius fizinius darbus. Apsakymus pradėjo spausdinti dar Lietuvoje, 1932 m. žurnaluose „Karys“, „Trimitas“, „Naujoji Romuva“. Dirbo Pasvalio bibliotekininku, kur plačiau susipažino su pasauline literatūra.
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2008 m. debiutavo istoriniu romanu "Silva rerum" (leidykla "Baltos lankos"), tapusiu dešimties leidimų sulaukusiu bestseleriu ir pripažintu "literatūros įvykiu" Lietuvoje. Įvertintas kritikų ir kultūros istorikų, romanas skaitytojus pavergė autentišku, daugiasluoksniu, magišku ir įtraukiančiu pasakojimu apie XVII a. (1659-1667) atmosferą.
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Beatrice Blue
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