Jurgita Jasponytė
Jurgita Jasponytė (gim. 1981) studijavo Vilniaus pedagoginiame universitete, įgijo lietuvių filologijos bakalauro ir literatūrologijos magistro laipsnį. Išleido du eilėraščių rinkinius: „Šaltupė“ (2014) ir „Vartai Auštrieji“ (2019). Abi knygos buvo pastebėtos ir įvertintos tiek skaitytojų, tiek kritikų – pelnė premijų, pateko į akcijos „Metų knygos rinkimai“ penketukus.
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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.
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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.
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Janina Degutytė
Lithuanian poet, romantic of late lyrics, author of poems for children.
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Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and published in 1994. Jon Fosse has written novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, essays and plays. His works have been translated into more than forty languages. He is widely considered as one of the world's greatest contemporary playwrights. Fosse was made a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite of France in 2007. Fosse also has been ranked number 83 on the list of the Top 100 living geniuses by The Daily Telegraph.
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard.
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His most recent book is Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, published in September 2015 by Crown Books. He is author also of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), a history of Nazi and Soviet mass killing on the lands between Berlin and Moscow. A New York Times bestseller and a book of the year according to The Atlantic, The Independent, The Financial Times, the Telegraph, and the New Statesma -
Georgi Gospodinov
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха).
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Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle er en særegen stemme i dansk litteratur. Hun var del af en gruppe hovedsageligt kvindelige forfattere, som debuterede eller slog deres navne fast i begyndelsen af 90’erne. Siden Balle debuterede i 1986 med romanen ”Lyrefugl”, har hun udgivet ganske få værker, så det var en overraskelse, da hun i 2020 annoncerede det ambitiøse og filosofiske syvbindsværk ”Om udregning af rumfang”, som hun i 2022 modtog Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris for, for de første fire bind
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Gintaras Grajauskas
Gintaras Grajauskas - a lithuanian poet, essayist, playwright, songwriter and singer. Grajauskas is known not only for his one of a kind poetry feeling and smart plays, but also for his work with the legendary lithuanian blues band "Kontrabanda".
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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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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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Olga Ravn
Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.
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Tine Høeg
Tine Høeg debuterede med digtromanen Nye rejsende, der udkom i januar 2017 og vandt BogForums Debutantpris samme år.
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Bogen har været månedsbog i Samlerens Bogklub og med i projektet KGL Dansk på Det Kongelige Teater.
Tine Høeg har derudover bidraget til diverse tidsskrifter og antologier - senest Høst & Søn-udgivelserne Jeg vælger uden filter og SKAM - og skrevet et lille poesihæfte og et radiodrama.
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Kotryna Zylė
Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life that will delight readers.
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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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