Ignas Šeinius
Ignas Šeinius (tikr. Ignas Jurkūnas, po 1943 m. šved. Ignas Scheynius, 1889 m. balandžio 3 d. Šeiniūnuose, Širvintų valsčius – 1959 m. sausio 15 d. Stokholme, Švedija) – lietuvių ir švedų rašytojas, Lietuvos diplomatas, spaudos darbuotojas.
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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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The literary production of Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius is wide and varied. It included historical dramas, collections of folklore, short stories and sketches of village life, novels on contemporary problems, and tales based on oriental themes. At his death he was engaged on a major work entitled Sons of Heaven and Earth, which defies classification. It is written partly as drama and partly as a narration; its subjects are biblical with the action taking place in Palestine at the beginnin -
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Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933) buvo Lietuvos rašytojas, spaudos darbuotojas, literatūros istorikas, kritikas, visuomenės veikėjas, pedagogas ir kunigas. Publicistinius straipsnius spausdino nuo 1890 m., grožinę kūrybą – nuo 1897 m. Grožinius kūrinius daugiausia pasirašinėjo Vaižganto slapyvardžiu, literatūros istorijos ir kritikos darbus – pavarde. Kūrybos bruožai: publicistinis pradas, lietuvių tautos būdo, jos kultūros prigimties apmąstymai, vienišo žmogaus jausmų ir etinių nuostatų, aistrų bei valios susidūrimas.
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Alvydas Šlepikas
Alvydas Šlepikas - poetas, režisierius, aktorius. Gimė 1966 m. sausio 27 d. Videniškiuose (Molėtų r.). 1988 - 1994 m. mokėsi Lietuvos muzikos akademijoje, kur baigė aktoriaus ir režisieriaus specialybes. Po studijų dirbo Vilniaus Mažajame teatre, Lietuso nacionaliniame dramos teatre, savaitraštyje „Literatūra ir menas“.
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1998 metais A. Šlepikui buvo skirta Zigmo Gėlės premija už eilėraščių rinkinį Taika tavo kraujui.
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Jurgis Kunčinas
Jurgis Kunčinas – poetas, eseistas, vertėjas, vienas žymiausių lietuvių prozininkų po Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atgavimo.
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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“.
J. Kunčinas buvo Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos narys (nuo 1989 m.), PEN centro narys (nuo 1995 m.). Žinomiausias jo romanas yra „Tūla“ (1993 m.). Už šį romaną J. Kunčinui 1993 m. paskirta Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos premija už geriausią metų knygą. Taip pat jis yra gavęs „Nemuno“ žurnalo premijas už poeziją (1972 m.) ir prozą (1994 m.), Alyta -
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (January 1, 1714, Lasdinehlen near Gumbinnen, East Prussia – February 18, 1780 Tollmingkehmen, East Prussia; Latin: Christian Donalitius) was a Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable minority of ethnic Lithuanians. He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Lithuanian: Metai), which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry. The poem, a classic work of Lithuanian literature, depicts everyday life of Lithuanian peasants, their struggle with serfdom, and the annual cycle of life.
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Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–87) was born in Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania. She spent her teenage years in a Siberian gulag. At twenty-one she escaped and returned to her home country only to be deported to Siberia once again in 1951. She was released five years later, then studied medicine. Grinkevičiūtė’s writings are now placed firmly in the Lithuanian canon.
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Vanda Juknaitė
Vanda Juknaitė – Lietuvos prozininkė, dramaturgė, eseistė.
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1972 m. VU baigė lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą. Mokytojavo, dėstė Klaipėdos konservatorijoje.
Nuo 1975 m. dėsto Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, bendradarbiauja spaudoje. Dirba socialinės pedagogikos srityje su benamiais, gatvės vaikais, neįgaliaisiais, įsteigė jiems vasaros stovyklą Inkūnuose (Anykščių raj.).
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Savo darbuose aprašo socialines problemas, kviečia diskutuoti apie svarbiausias humanistines vertybes – apie atsakomybę ne tik už save ar kitą žmogų, bet ir už visą pasaulį, apie žmogaus vertę, meilę, pareigą. Rašytojos kūriniai nėra saldūs – juose atsispindi kita, tamsesnioji visuomenės pusė: „nužemintųjų ir nuskriaustųjų“, sergan -
Juozas Grušas
Juozas Grušas (1901 m. lapkričio 29 d. Žadžiūnuose, Šiaulių valsčius – 1986 m. gegužės 21 d. Kaune) – Lietuvos dramaturgas, prozininkas, vertėjas, eseistas, kultūros veikėjas.
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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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Melvin Burgess
Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the trendy and controversial idea of heroin-addicted teenagers. Junk soon became, at least in Britain, one of the best-known children's books of the decade.
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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 -
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 -
Kevin Brooks
Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.
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Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North Eas -
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
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Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w -
Kazys Binkis
Kazys Binkis was born on November 4, 1893 in the village of Gudeliai in the district of Biržai. He attended primary school at Papilys, graduating in 1908; he studied at the Saulė (The Sun), taking courses for teachers and at Biržai progymnasium. In 1910 he entered the school of agriculture in Voronec (near Švenčionys), but for the lack of funds moved to Vilnius in 1913 and began to prepare himself privately for matriculation examinations. In 1909 K.Binkis began to publish prose and verse in Viltis (The Hope), Vaivorykštė (The Rainbow), and Pirmasis baras (The First Field). In 1915 he graduated from the teachers' courses of the Lithuanian Committee in Vilnius and became a teacher at Papilys. In 1918 Binkis was elected a chairman of the Birža
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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.
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Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals world-wide.
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In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania because of war. En route, his train was stopped in Germany and he and his brother, Adolfas Mekas (1925–2011), were imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced person camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. From 1946 to 1948, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz and at the end of 1949, he emigrated with his brot -
Renia Spiegel
Renia Spiegel was born in Uhryńkowce in Tarnopol province on June 18, 1924, the daughter of Rose and Bernard Spiegel. Bernard Spiegel was a land owner of an estate during this time. Renia’s younger sister by six years, Ariana, was a child star and by the age of 8 was performing on the famous stage of "Cyrulik Warszawski". She was featured in numerous films shot before the outbreak of the Second World War, including a part in director, Michael Waszyński’s film, Gehenna (1938).
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Renia starts her diary in January 1939. At the outbreak of war, Renia is 15 years old. Together with her sister, Ariana, she stays in Przemyśl with their grandparents. Renia writes moving poems which are sometimes featured in the school newspaper. She also writes a seri -
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).
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Vytautė Žilinskaitė
Vytautė Genovaitė Žilinskaitė (g. 1930 m. gruodžio 13 d. Kaune) – Lietuvos prozininkė, humoristė, vaikų literatūros rašytoja.
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Vytautė Žilinskaitė suaugusiųjų literatūroje garsi kaip daugybės kandžių humoreskų rašytoja, satyrikė. Vaikų literatūroje žinomi jos apsakymai, literatūrinės pasakos, eilėraščiai ir kelios pjesės. Rašytoja dažniausiai pasakoja ne istorijas, o svarsto kokią nors problemą, ji „filosofuoja“ pasirinkta tema, naudodamasi stulbinančiomis hiperbolėmis, fantastiškais įsivaizdavimais, kurdama absurdiškas situacijas. „Vytautė Žilinskaitė gana sėkmingai pakeitė lietuviškojo sąmojo pobūdį, intelektualizuodama jo ištakas ir išraišką dabartinės prozos ir poezijos dvasia“, – rašė Vytautas Kubilius 1995 metais.
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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 -
Vytautas Račickas
Vytautas Račickas (slapyvardis Vytautas Dvarčionis). Gimė 1952 01 01 Anykščių rajone Keblonių kaime. 1969 m. baigė Utenos antrąją vid. mokyklą, vėliau - Vilniaus universitetą.
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Visą savo gyvenimą dirbo laikraščiuose (1974–1977 m. - laikraščio "Tarybinis mokytojas“ korespondentas, 1977–1985 m. - "Lietuvos pionierius“ korespondentas, 1987–2000 m. - "Genio“ žurnalo literatūros redaktorius, vyr. redaktorius.) Rašė prozą, daugiausia vaikams. Už knygą Zuika padūkėlis gavo Respublikinę komjaunimo premiją.
V. Račicko kūriniuose keliamos opiausios problemos, tokios kaip tėvų skyrybos, nesutarimai, mokykla. Visos jos pateikiamos grakščiai, be nereikalingo banalumo. Apsakymai lengvi, suprantami, tačiau tuo pat metu įtraukiantys ir sudominantys. Knygų h