Saulius Šaltenis
Saulius Šaltenis - a lithuanian writer known for his free-spirited writing and wide cultural horizons in several generations of readers.
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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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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 -
Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta (1905-1965) – Lietuvos rašytojas, poetas, politinis veikėjas.
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Eduardas Mieželaitis
Eduardas Mieželaitis (1919-1997) – Lietuvos poetas, publicistas, vertėjas, komjaunimo bei partinis veikėjas.
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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 -
Waris Dirie
Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye, Arabic: واريس ديري) (born in 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.
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In 1997, Waris abandoned her modeling career to focus on her work against female circumcision. That same year, she was appointed UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM). -
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1943, he was evacuated to Cumberland during the last years of the Second World War, then returned to London, moving later to Essex. After a brief and unsuccessful spell in the army, he took up teaching and started to write. He left teaching after ten years in order to set up 'Farms for City Children' with his wife. They have three farms in Devon, Wales and Gloucestershire, open to inner city school children who come to stay and work with the animals. In 1999 this work was publicly recognised when he and his wife were invested
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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 -
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 -
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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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
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 -
Karen Swan
Karen Swan began her career in fashion journalism before giving it all up to raise her three children and a puppy, and to pursue her ambition of becoming a writer. She lives in the forest in Sussex, writing her books in a treehouse overlooking the Downs. Her books include Christmas at Tiffany's, Summer at Tiffany's, The Perfect Present, Christmas in the Snow, The Summer Without You, The Paris Secret, and Christmas Under the Stars.
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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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Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
Vincas Mykolaitis known by his pen name Putinas (literally Viburnum; January 6, 1893 in Pilotiškės – June 7, 1967 in Kačerginė) was Lithuanian poet and writer. He was also a priest, but renounced his priesthood in 1935.
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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
Born in Łódź, Poland, November 29, 1910, Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director. Škėma remains, to this day, one of the biggest innovators and standart-bearers of modernism in lithuanian literature. He's sometimes referred to as Lithuanian Albert Camus.
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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
Kazys Boruta (1905-1965) – Lietuvos rašytojas, poetas, politinis veikėjas.
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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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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 -
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.).
Nuo 1990 m. Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos narė.
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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Gabija Grušaitė
Gabija Grušaitė (gim. 1987 m.) - debiutuojanti jauna lietuvių rašytoja. Ji dvylika savo gyvenimo metų lavino ranką dailės klasėje Vilniaus M. K. Čiurlionio menų mokykloje, o vėliau išvyko studijuoti medijų ir antropologijos į šiandieninę lietuvių menininkų Meką - Londoną. Didžioji Gabijos aistra - keliauti ir pažinti.
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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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Jolita Herlyn
Jolita Herlyn (mergautinė pavardė Kraniauskaitė) gimė 1966 m., studijavo filosofiją Maskvos Lomonosovo universitete, dėstė filosofiją ir logiką Klaipėdos universitete, dirbo Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybės tarptautinių ryšių skyriuje, porą metų „Balticum“ televizijoje vedė diskusijų laidą „Proto aistros“. Yra parašiusi per du šimtus straipsnių dienraščiui „Klaipėda“, o „Vakarų ekspresas“ spausdino jos interviu ciklą su užsieniečiais, apsilankiusiais ar gyvenančiais Lietuvoje. Nuo 2006 m. Jolita Herlyn persikėlė į Daniją, kur vadovavo banko rinkodaros skyriui. Šiuo metu gyvena Hamburge.
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Akvilina Cicėnaitė
Rašytoja, vertėja, literatūros premijomis apdovanota devynių knygų vaikams, paaugliams ir suaugusiesiems autorė. Gimė ir užaugo Vilniuje. Vilniaus universitete baigė lietuvių filologijos bakalauro ir literatūros teorijos magistro studijas. Velingtono Viktorijos universitete (Naujoji Zelandija) baigė religijų studijų doktorantūrą ir apsigynė daktaro laipsnį. Šiuo metu studijuoja VU ir LLTI literatūros doktorantūroje.
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Penkios knygos įtrauktos į Metų knygų rinkimų penketukus, „Niujorko respublika“ pateko į LLTI sudaromą kūrybiškiausių knygų dvyliktuką, pelnė IBBY premiją. „Anglų kalbos žodynas“ pelnė Jurgos Ivanauskaitės premiją, tapo 2022 m. Metų knyga prozos suaugusiesiems kategorijoje, 15min.lt Metų knygos rinkimuose išrinktas geriausia liet -
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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Lindsey Fitzharris
I am the author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, which won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing and has been translated into multiple languages. My TV series The Curious Life and Death of . . . aired on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020. I contribute regularly to The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other notable publications, and hold a doctorate in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford. My next book, The Facemaker, will be released in June. It follows the harrowing story of Harold Gillies, the pioneering surgeon who rebuilt soldiers' faces during the First World War.
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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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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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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 -
Ilona Ežerinytė
Knygos autorė Ilona Ežerinytė tuometiniame Šiaulių pedagoginiame institute studijavo lietuvių kalbą ir literatūrą, nuo 1999 metų gyvena ir dirba mokytoja Vilniuje. Literatūroje debiutavo pasakų knyga „Šunojaus diena“ (jai 2016 metų nacionaliniame vaikų literatūros konkurse
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skirta pirmoji vieta). „Sutikti eidą“ – antroji autorės knyga. -
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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Laura Varslauskaitė
Esu Laura Varslauskaitė. Gimiau 1986 m. Panevėžyje. Baigiau tuometinio Vilniaus pedagoginio instituto lietuvių kalbos specialybę. Ši mokslo įstaiga mane subrandino ir dar labiau paskatino domėtis literatūra. Šiuo metu tęsiu studijas Londono universitete. Rašyti pradėjau dar mokyklos suole, nes negaliu ir negalėjau atsispirti tuščiam popieriaus lapui, kuris visuomet į mane žiūri keistai šnairuodamas.
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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