Sigitas Parulskis
Sigitas Parulskis is a modern Lithuanian poet, essayist, playwright and reviewer. In 1990 he graduated from Vilnius University, Lithuanian language and literature. He was working in notable journals and newspapers (Literatūra ir menas, Lietuvos aidas, Lietuvos rytas, Šiaurės Atėnai). Today he gives lectures of creative writing for Vilnius University students, writes articles to various newspapers, journals and internet websites.
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Ukrainian pen name is Горіха Зерня.
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Tamara Horikha Zernya (Tamara Duda) was born and raised in Kyiv. A poetry and prose author as well as a songwriter, she holds a degree in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Daughter is her debut novel and has received favourable reviews from both literary critics and well-established Ukrainian writers. With the outbreak of war in Eastern Ukraine, Tamara took a leave of absence from her career to serve as a volunteer at the front. In 2014 and 2015, she and her husband raised funds for, purchased, and delivered equipment and aid to Ukrainian soldiers to the front. -
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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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 -
Aušra Kaziliūnaitė
Aušra KAZILIŪNAITĖ (poet; Lithuania) is an author of four books of poetry. Last year her selected poems, The Moon is a Pill (Parthian Books, 2018) was published in English. The book was listed among the five best works of Baltic literature recently translated into English by literature expert Jayde Will. Her texts have been translated into twelve other languages as well. Aušra Kaziliūnaitė has received numerous Lithuanian national awards including the Young Artist Prize from the Ministry of Culture (2016). She was invited to the International Writing Program 2018 (IWP) in the USA and participated courtsey of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
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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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Laima Lavaste
Laima Žiūkienė Lavaste – lietuvių žurnalistė, dienraščio „Lietuvos rytas“ korespondentė Suomijoje.
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Laima Lavaste taip pat rašė leidiniui „Ekstra“; savo straipsniuose aprašo Suomijos aktualijas, yra parašiusi keletą straipsnių ir Lietuvos tematika, sulaukusių rezonanso visuomenėje. -
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 -
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
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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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Maria Judite de Carvalho
MARIA JUDITE DE CARVALHO nasceu em Lisboa a 18 de Setembro de 1921. Estreou-se com o livro de contos Tanta Gente, Mariana (1959) e foi galardoada com o Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco pela colectânea As Palavras Poupadas (1961). Além de contos, publicou romances e crónicas, cultivando também o jornalismo. Na sua obra reflecte-se o dramatismo da solidão do mundo urbano, onde há muita gente e pouca alma. Publicou Paisagem Sem Barcos (1965), Os Armários Vazios (1966), Flores ao Telefone (1968), Os Idólatras (1969), Tempo das Mercês (1973), A Janela Fingida (1975), O Homem no Arame (1976), Além do Quadro (1983), Seta Despedida (1995), A Flor que Havia na Água Parada (1998) e Havemos de Rir? (1998). Reuniu parte das suas crónicas em Este Tempo (199
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Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist.
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Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Zabuzhko studied philosophy at the Kyiv University, where she also obtained her doctorate in aesthetics in 1987. In 1992 she taught at Penn State University as a visiting writer. Zabuzhko won a Fulbright scholarship in 1994 and taught Ukrainian literature at Harvard and University of Pittsburgh. Currently Zabuzhko works at the Hryhori Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Zabuzhko is known both for her literary works and criticism. Her controversial bestselling novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex was translated in eight languages. In her writing Zabuzhko draws a lot of attention to the questions of Ukrainia -
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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Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books
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Charles Bukowski was the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941, then left school and moved to -
Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
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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.
A. Šlepiko kūryba spausdinta „Poezijos pavasario“, „Druskininkų rudens“ ir kt. almanachuose. Jo žodžiais sukurta nemažai dainų.