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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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."
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Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (February 2, 1896, near Biržai, Lithuania - October 16, 1947, Vilnius) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist.
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He contributed to cultural journals from his early youth. His works were published by the liberal wing of the Lithuanian cultural movement, and also in various Lithuanian newspapers and other outlets (such as Aušrinė, Rygos Naujienos etc.). In 1914 he began studying literature in St. Petersburg, Russia, and later in Moscow, due to World War I and the Russian Revolution. In 1921 he enrolled in the University of Munich, where in 1924 he received his Ph.D for a doctoral thesis on Lithuanian folklore.
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In 1909, Mykolaitis enrolled to the Seinai Priest Seminary, after few years he published his first poem. In 1915 he was ordained as a priest, however he questioned his mission as a priest. Later he continued studies at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. In St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis published his first collection of poems in 1917. After St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and received doctoral degree in 1922.
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Justinas Marcinkevičius
Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joined the Communist party in 1957. He worked for a number of years as vice-chairman of the board of the official Union of Lithuanian Writers. He died in Vilnius.
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Having grown up during the post-war period, Marcinkevičius evokes in his poetry a romanticized version of childhood spent in the Lithuanian countryside, of first love, of man's relationship with nature. In his poetry specific and solid peasant thinking is combined with a mind seeking to draw broad general conclusions, and the tradition of Lithuanian poetry singing the Earth's praises with -
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
Vincas Mickevičius (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954), better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.
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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
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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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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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."
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Adam Mickiewicz
To a Pole, the name Adam Mickiewicz is emblematic of Polishness and greatness. What Homer is to the Greeks, or Shakespeare to the English, Mickiewicz is to the Poles. He is a cultural icon, a name inextricably connected with Polish literature and history, and one mentioned with pride. Mickiewicz stands out in the consciousness of Poles both as a man of letters and a political leader.
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Despite his unquestionable status and fame, however, much of Mickiewicz's biography is shrouded in mystery. Even the generally accepted date of his birth, December 24. 1798, is uncertain, since it hasn't been determined whether it refers to the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. Nor has it been established conclusively whether Mickiewicz was born in Nowogrodek or -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
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George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
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Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
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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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In 1909, Mykolaitis enrolled to the Seinai Priest Seminary, after few years he published his first poem. In 1915 he was ordained as a priest, however he questioned his mission as a priest. Later he continued studies at the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy. In St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis published his first collection of poems in 1917. After St. Petersburg, Mykolaitis continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and received doctoral degree in 1922.
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Antanas Škėma
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Jonas Biliūnas
Jonas Biliūnas (11 April 1879 – 8 December 1907) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant participant in the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Most of his works are short stories, and often have autobiographical inclusions dealing with his own personal life's experiences. Liūdna pasaka (A Sad Tale) is his longest work and is a psychological drama dealing with the Uprising of 1863. In this work the main character, a woman, is driven to ruin as a consequence of the uprising, and her story is told from a psychological vantage point. During the period between 1900 and 1905, Biliūnas wrote approximately fifteen poems, including several sonnets. These sonnets were influenced by his studies of Petrar -
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Kazys Boruta
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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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Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
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 -
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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Justinas Marcinkevičius
Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joined the Communist party in 1957. He worked for a number of years as vice-chairman of the board of the official Union of Lithuanian Writers. He died in Vilnius.
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Having grown up during the post-war period, Marcinkevičius evokes in his poetry a romanticized version of childhood spent in the Lithuanian countryside, of first love, of man's relationship with nature. In his poetry specific and solid peasant thinking is combined with a mind seeking to draw broad general conclusions, and the tradition of Lithuanian poetry singing the Earth's praises with -
Antanas Baranauskas
Antanas Baranauskas buvo Lietuvos poetas, kalbininkas; nuo 1897 m. Seinų vyskupas. Rašytojo A. Vienuolio dėdė.
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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 -
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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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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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 -
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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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 -
Jarem Sawatsky
Jarem Sawatsky, Ph.D., is the National Bestselling author/ co-author of 5 books, including the award-winning Dancing with Elephants. He is internationally known for his work as peacebuilder, and teacher working to bring an engaged mindfulness to those interested in wellness, resilience, and transformation. He is Professor Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies at Canadian Mennonite University.
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Since being diagnosed with a terminal disease, he has been stumbling his way (literally) into finding more healing and joyful ways to live. His most recent book is the National Bestselling and award-winning “Dancing with Elephants.”
Even though he has holes in his brain (yes, literally), his work has been celebrated by authors who have s