Jurgis Kunčinas
Jurgis Kunčinas – poetas, eseistas, vertėjas, vienas žymiausių lietuvių prozininkų po Lietuvos nepriklausomybės atgavimo.
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
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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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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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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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Justinas Marcinkevičius
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Danutė Kalinauskaitė
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Gimė 1959 m. Kaune. Mokėsi Kauno 13-ojoje vidurinėje mokykloje, vėliau studijavo lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą Vilniaus universitete. 1987 m. pasirodė pirmoji jos knyga „Išėjusi šviesa“. Vėliau rašytoja kuriam laikui iš literatūrinio gyvenimo pasitraukė.
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Kotryna was born and raised in Vilnius, Lithuania, and studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. While still a student, she began to dive into the visual communication of cultural heritage and became interested in Lithuanian mythology. In 2012, she began writing and illustrating children’s books and ever since her love of children’s literature, illustration, and mythology has been a source of inspiration for new books and projects.
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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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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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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 -
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Albinas Marius Vaitkus (1949 m. pasivadinęs Marium Katiliškiu) — Lietuvos išeivijos rašytojas.
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1949m. rašytojas emigravo į JAV ir įsikūrė Čikagoje, kur dirbo įvairiuose fabrikuose. Čikagoje, V. Civinsko vadovaujamoje „Ter -
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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Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Dailės istorikė dr. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė gimė Vilniuje, nuo 2002 dirba Londone didžiausio Lietuvos dienraščio užsienio korespondente.
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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.
2009 m. "Silva rerum" tapo lietuviška Metų knyga
2010 m. kritikų oficialiai įvardinta viena iš dešimties įsimintiniausių dešimtmečio knygų
2008 m. Jurgos Ivanauskaitės premija
2009 m. Lietuvių literatūros instituto Kūrybiškiausių knygų dvyliktuke
2011 m. "Baltos lankos" išleid -
John Fowles
John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, a small town in Essex. He recalled the English suburban culture of the 1930s as oppressively conformist and his family life as intensely conventional. Of his childhood, Fowles said "I have tried to escape ever since."
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Fowles attended Bedford School, a large boarding school designed to prepare boys for university, from ages 13 to 18. After briefly attending the University of Edinburgh, Fowles began compulsory military service in 1945 with training at Dartmoor, where he spent the next two years. World War II ended shortly after his training began so Fowles never came near combat, and by 1947 he had decided that the military life was not for him.
Fowles then spent four years at Oxford, where he discov -
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 -
Axel Munthe
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Physician, psychiatrist, and writer. He was educated at the University of Uppsala and at Monpellier in Paris where he received his M.D. He studied the work of the French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot and used hypnosis in his own work with the physical and psychological symptoms of his patients. He later became physician to the Swedish Royal family.
He became known as "the modern St. Francis of Assissi" because he financed sanctuaries for birds.
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Ligita Markevičienė
Ligita Markevičienė baigė psichologijos mokslus, kurį laiką dirbo psichologe, ją visada domino žmonių santykiai, tarpusavio bendravimas, vidinis žmogaus pasaulis, netobulumas, pasitikėjimo savimi pokyčiai. Tai, kas labai būdinga jaunimui, ieškančiam savęs ir savo vietos po saule. Šiuo metu autorė dirba IT srityje, o pomėgis rašyti išliko visuomet šalia. Tai debiutinis jos romanas apie draugystę, stebuklingus pasaulius, praradimus ir naujus atradimus. Kūryboje įkvėpimo autorė semiasi iš japoniškos animacijos, muzikos ir kompiuterinių žaidimų.
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Kęstutis Navakas
Kęstutis Navakas was a Lithuanian poet, essayist and translator. The laureate of Lithuania's National prize of Culture and Art in 2007.
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Saulius Tomas Kondrotas
Born in 1953, Saulius Tomas Kondrotas emigrated to the West in 1986. During the years of 2001-2004, he worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe. Since 2004 he has been living in Los Angeles, California (USA). He published three collections of stories, and the novels: “A Glance of the Serpent“ (1981), “And the Faces of Those Glancing through the Window Will Darken“ (1985).
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His works have been translated into 20 different languages around the world. Kondrotas’s masterfully composed stories are marked by elements of time and fantasy, as well as intertextuality. He often combines several literary genres, while examining universal questions. Kondrotas is considered the most important representative of magical realism in Lithuanian literature. -
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas was born in 1976 in Panevezys, Lithuania. Kvietkauskas studied Lithuanian literature at Vilnius University and the Cultural History of Middle and Eastern Europe at the universities of Warsaw and Cracow and is currently working on postgraduate studies at Vilnius University (comparative studies of Lithuanian, Polish, Belarus and Yiddish literature). His first book of poetry “Rabi” was published in 1998. He is also a literary critic and an essayist and an editor of the Lithuanian literary monthly “Metai.” He is represented by an article in the Commentary on Lithuanian poetry.
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