Icchokas Meras
Meras was born in 1934 in Kelmė, a town in northwestern Lithuania, which contained one of the country's oldest Jewish communities. His family perished during the fateful and tragic summer of 1941 when the Nazis undertook the liquidation of Lithuania's Jews, but young Icchokas escaped the Holocaust. "On July 28, 1941, I was being taken to a ditch to be shot," he wrote later. "Due to chance, they decided to return some of the children. Due to another chance, I fell in with people who valued the life of a seven-year old child."
Hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family, Meras survived the war. In the violent and troubled post-war years Meras attended secondary school and soon revealed an inclination towards writing when he came to work
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1998 metais A. Šlepikui buvo skirta Zigmo Gėlės premija už eilėraščių rinkinį Taika tavo kraujui.
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J. Kunčinas Vilniaus universitete 1964–1968 m. studijavo vokiečių filologiją. Pirmoji jo publikacija pasirodė 1968 m. Yra parašęs literatūrinės kritikos, satyrų, esė, radijo pjesių, kino scenarijų. Publikuodavo esė laikraščiuose „Lietuvos aidas“, „Valstiečių laikraštis“, „Šiaurės Atėnai“.
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1972 m. VU baigė lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą. Mokytojavo, dėstė Klaipėdos konservatorijoje.
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Nuo 1925 m. skelbė periodinėje spaudoje apsakymus, feljetonus. Pirmasis apsakymas „Lelijos sapnas“ pasirodė jaunimo žurnale „Ateitis“ (1926 m., Nr. 4). Pasirašė slapyvardžiu Juozas Kriaušė. [4] Keletą mėnesių redagavo katalikų jaunimo žurnalą „Pavasaris“. Čia spausdino apsakymus, pasirašydamas tuo pačiu slapyvardžiu: Juozas Kriaušė – tai sulietuvintas Grušas. Feljetonus pasirašydavo Liongino Padanginės pseudonimu. Pirmasis apsakymų rinkinys „Ponia Bertulienė“ išleistas 1928 m., o didžiausią populiarumą iš prozos darbų pelnė romanas „Karjeristai“ (1935 m.).
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Antanas Baranauskas
Antanas Baranauskas buvo Lietuvos poetas, kalbininkas; nuo 1897 m. Seinų vyskupas. Rašytojo A. Vienuolio dėdė.
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Žemaitė
Žemaitė (literally female Samogitian) – a pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė; 4 June [O.S. 23 May] 1845 in Bukantė near Plungė – 7 December 1921 in Marijampolė) was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival. She wrote about peasant life in the style best described as realism.
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Marius Katiliškis
Albinas Marius Vaitkus (1949 m. pasivadinęs Marium Katiliškiu) — Lietuvos išeivijos rašytojas.
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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.
1944 m. M. Katiliškis pasitraukė į Vokietiją. Čia kurį laiką studijavo meną Freiburge. Tais pačiais metais buvo paruošęs spaudai rinkinį „Seno kareivio sugrįžimas“, tačiau karo sąmyšyje šis mašinraštis žuvo.
1948 m. Vokietijoje išleido pirmąjį novelių rinkinį „Prasilenkimo valanda“.
1949m. rašytojas emigravo į JAV ir įsikūrė Čikagoje, kur dirbo įvairiuose fabrikuose. Čikagoje, V. Civinsko vadovaujamoje „Ter -
Joseph Bédier
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Modern theories of the fabliaux and the chansons de geste are based on two of Bédier's studies.
Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900), La chanson de Roland (1921), and Les fabliaux (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death.
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Melvin Burgess
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Burgess again courted predictable controversy in 2003, with the publication of Doing It, which dealt with underage sex. America created a show based on the book, Life As We Know It. In his other books, such as Bloodtide and The Ghost Behind the Wall, Burgess has dealt with less realist and sometimes fan -
Kazys Binkis
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Daina Opolskaitė
Daina Opolskaitė gimė 1979 m. Vilkaviškyje, baigė lituanistikos studijas. „Dienų piramidės" – antrasis autorės novelių rinkinys, kurio teko laukti net 18 metų. Jame sugulė laiko patikrinti ir literatūrologų įvertinti tekstai, skelbti įvairiuose literatūriniuose ir kultūriniuose leidiniuose. 2018 metais novelė „Grotos" pelnė „lietuviškosios novelės Nobelį" – rašytojo Antano Vaičiulaičio premiją, o novelė „Ateik per ledą" tais pačiais metais buvo apdovanota Jurgio Kunčino literatūrine premija.
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Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė
Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė - a Lithuanian writer, journalist, and playwright - is one of the most promising young authors.
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Her first book was published while studying in high school and later she made her debut as a playwright. It proved to be a success - her plays were staged in Vilnius and Moscow.
Laura, now a loving mother, continues writing novels, articles, and plays in Vilnius. -
Ričardas Gavelis
Ričardas Gavelis – prozininkas, dramaturgas, eseistas, griežčiausias totalitarizmo kritikas lietuvių literatūroje, dažnai vadinamas pagrindinės savo metaforos – Vilniaus kaip Visatos subinės – kūrėju. Tyrinėjo lietuviško mentaliteto deformacijas, demaskavo ideologijų poveikį asmenybei.
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1968 metais baigė Druskininkų vidurinę mokyklą. Studijavo Vilniaus Universitete ir gavo fiziko teoretiko diplomą. 1973 m., baigęs studijas, pradėjo dirbti Mokslų Akademijos Fizikos institute, vėliau – žurnalų „Mokslas ir gyvenimas“ bei „Pergalė“ redakcijose. Taip R. Gavelis nejučia įsitvirtino literatūriniame gyvenime, tapdamas profesionaliu rašytoju (prozininku, dramaturgu, publicistu).
R.Gavelio kūryboje didelę reikšmę turi Vilnius. Vieniems romanų herojams -
Antanas Vaičiulaitis
Antanas Vaičiulaitis (taip pat žinomas slapyvardžiu Aug. Raginis) – Lietuvos diplomatas, rašytojas, vertėjas.
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Baigė Vilkaviškio „Žiburio“ gimnaziją. Lietuvos universitete studijavo lietuvių ir prancūzų kalbą bei literatūrą, pedagogiką, psichologiją. Prancūzų literatūros studijas gilino Grenoblio ir Sorbonos universitetuose.
XX a. ketvirtojo dešimtmečio kartos rašytojas, išsiskiriantis ypač šviesia humanistine pasaulėvoka ir dėmesiu estetiniam kūrinio formos tobulumui. Vaičiulaitis yra vienas ryškiausių krikščioniškojo humanizmo atstovų lietuvių literatūroje, gretintinas su tokiais XX a. prancūzų ir italų literatūros meistrais kaip André Maurois, François Mauriac, Giovanni Pappini. Stilistine kultūra, vakarietiška kūrybine orientacija jis prim -
Ludvík Vaculík
Ludvík Vaculík was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.
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