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Lithuanian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Lithuania or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Gintarė Adomaitytė (born 1957), journalist *Loreta Anilionytė, philosopher, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist, since 2000 *Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz (1909–1998), Lithuanian-born Hebrew children's writer * Magdalena Avietėnaitė (1892–1984), journalist, diplomat and a public figure B * Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007), poet, essayist, painter C *Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (born 1976), playwright, novelist * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 1929), scholar, translator G * Ona Galdikaitė (1898–1990), Lithuanian nun, poet and dissident writer, theological translator *Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), Lithuanian-American translator, non-fiction writer, writings in German and English on archaeology, Lithuanian culture *Emma Goldman (1869–1940), Lithuanian-born Russian-American memoirist, autobiographer, publisher, anarchist *Aldona Gustas (born 1932), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugnė Karvelis
Ugnė Karvelis (13 June 1935 – 6 March 2002, in Paris, France) was a writer, a translator and a member of the UNESCO Executive Board from 1997 to 2002. Biography Karvelis was born in Noreikiškės, Kaunas district on 13 June 1935, to Lithuanian politician Petras Karvelis (1925-1929 Foreign Minister of Lithuania) and Veronika Bakštytė, a cultural activist. Following the 1940 incorporation of Lithuanie into the Soviet Union, the Karvelis family emigrated to Germany in 1944. In 1940 Karvelis enrolled in ''Sacre Coeur'', a private school in Berlin. She continued her studies at Kaunas ''Aušra'' Gymnasium (1943-1944) and Tübingen French school (1945-1950). Karvelis studied at the Sorbonne (1951-1952) and then in the international relations department at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris from 1952 to 1956. Karvelis furthered her studies overseas at Columbia University in New York in the history and economics departments from 1957 to 1958. In 1955 Karvelis began working f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šatrijos Ragana
Šatrijos Ragana ("Witch of Šatrija") was the pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (; March 8, 1877 – July 24, 1930), a Lithuanian humanist and romantic writer and educator. Her most successful works are (''In the Old Estate'', 1922) and ''Irkos tragedija'' (''Tragedy of Irka''). Biography Born in Medingėnai, Kovno Governorate to a family of petty Lithuanian nobles, Pečkauskaitė was raised in Polish culture. However, she made friends with local Lithuanian peasants and, influenced by her tutor Povilas Višinskis, joined the Lithuanian National Revival. Because of poor health and expensive tuition, Pečkauskaitė did not graduate from a gymnasium in Saint Petersburg and had to complete her education privately in the Labūnava estate near Užventis. Višinskis translated her first works, written in Polish, into Lithuanian and published in liberal Lithuanian periodicals, such as ''Varpas'' and ''Ūkininkas''. However, Pečkauskaitė disagreed with their secular agenda and turne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė is an art historian, doctor honoris causa of Vilnius Academy of Arts and one of the most prominent contemporary Lithuanian writers. Born in Vilnius, she has been based in London since 2002. She worked as a foreign correspondent in London and columnist for Lithuania's biggest daily newspaper until 2010. She is best known for her opus magnum historical novel Silva Rerum and the international bestseller Peter's Empress. Literary career The 'Silva Rerum' novels In 2008 she debuted with a historical novel 'Silva Rerum' (published by Baltos Lankos Publishers) about the life of a noble Narwoysz family in 1659–1667, the period after The Deluge. It became a bestseller of 19 editions and was pronounced 'a literary event' and 'a cultural phenomenon' in Lithuania, critically acclaimed and recognised by historians of culture, praised for the captivating, multilayered storytelling and the great attention to historical detail. Intended from the beginning as a tetralog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undinė Radzevičiūtė
Undinė Radzevičiūtė is a Lithuanian novelist, a winner of the EU Prize for Literature in 2015. Biography She was born on 16 June 1967. Her mother's family came from Courland, a Germanic-influenced region of Latvia and has Baltic German-Polish-Lithuanian roots, while her father was Lithuanian-Polish. Radzevičiūtė studied at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She worked for many years in the advertising industry for Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett. Literary career Radzevičiūtė published her first book, a novella titled ''Strekaza'', in 2003. This was followed in 2010 by ''Frankburgas''. Her first collection of short stories, ''Baden Badeno nebus'' was published in 2011. These tales share motivations, and the same characters appear in them. Sooner or later, an individual begins to be pressured and is forced to pretend to be simpler than they are, to adapt to the demands of society, which eventually leads to their destruction. Radzevičiūtė's writing is described as ''minimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (born 1960) is a Lithuanian writer. She was born in Panevėžys in northern Lithuania, and studied in Vilnius University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature. She taught for a few years in her native region, before returning to Vilnius to work as a journalist. She lived in the USA from 1994 to 1998; her husband Giedrius Subačius, a scholar of Lithuanian, was teaching in Chicago. Radvilavičiūtė won the EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ... for her short story collection ''Šiąnakt aš miegosiu prie sienos'' (''Tonight I Shall Sleep by the Wall''). She lives in Vilnius, where she works as an editor. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Radvilaviciute, Giedra Living people 1960 births Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina Pukytė
Paulina Pukyté (born 1966) is a Lithuanian artist, poet, essayist and critic. She studied at the Vilnius Academy of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, where she was a winner of the Madame Tussaud's Art Prize. She has taught at the Vilnius Academy of Art and the Kaunas Art Institute Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai .... As a writer, she has published three books: ''Jų papročiai'' (''Their Habits'', 2005), ''Netikras Zuikis'' (''Fake Rabbit'', 2008) and ''Bedalis ir labdarys'' (''A Loser and a Do-gooder'', 2013). ''Netikras Zuikis'' was shortlisted for the Book Of The Year award in Lithuania. Pukyté also writes regularly on cultural issues in the Lithuanian press. She divides her time between London and Vilnius. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pukyte, Pau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazdynų Pelėda
Lazdynų Pelėda (literally: ''Hazelnut Owl'') was the common pen name of two Lithuanian sisters writers: Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė (1867–1926) and Marija Ivanauskaitė-Lastauskienė (1872–1957), who were individually mostly known by their respective marriage names. Sofija (Sophia) married a landowner R. Pšibiliauskas (Przybylewski). Marija (Maria) married Belarusian literary critic and politician Vaclau Lastouski (Lastauskas). Their father, painter Nikodemas Ivanauskas, was a member of Lithuanian nobility. Since 1966 a museum is established in their former farmstead. In 1993 a monument to the sisters was erected in Vilnius (sculptor Dalia Matulaitė, architects Jūras Balkevičius and Rimantas Buivydas Rimantas (shortened as Rimas) is a masculine Lithuanian given name. The feminine form of the name is Rimantė. Notable people with the name include: * Rimantas Astrauskas (b. 1955), physicist, ecologist, and signatory of the 1990 Act *Rimantas Jo .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofija Pšibiliauskienė
Sofija Pšibiliauskienė ''née'' Ivanauskaitė ( pl, Zofia Przybylewska, née Iwanowska; September 16, 1867 in Paragiai, Shavelsky Uyezd, Kovno Governorate – March 15, 1926 in Paragiai) and Marija Lastauskienė were two Lithuanian sister writers of Polish origin, using the same pen name '' Lazdynų Pelėda'' (''Hazel Owl''). Biography Pšibiliauskienė was born to an impractical painter of Polish–Lithuanian nobility stock. Pšibiliauskienė did not have formal education and self-educated reading various sentimental novels by Polish authors. In 1891, she married their neighbor landowner Rapolas Pšibiliauskas ( pl, Rafał Przybylewski), but the marriage was not happy. In 1903, with two small children, Pšibiliauskienė moved out to Vilnius. She took random jobs as a bookstore saleswoman, seamstress, pharmacy assistant, but still barely managed to avoid poverty. In 1914, she moved to Kaunas, where she fell ill with tuberculosis. She then returned to her childhood home in Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė
Gabrielė Petkevičaitė (; 18 March 1861 – 14 June 1943) was a Lithuanian educator, writer, and activist. Her pen name Bitė (''Bee'') eventually became part of her last name. Encouraged by Povilas Višinskis, she joined public life and started her writing career in 1890, becoming a prominent member of the Lithuanian National Revival. She was the founder and chair of the Žiburėlis society to provide financial aid to struggling students, one of the editors of the newspaper ''Lietuvos žinios'', and an active member of the women's movement. In 1920, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania and chaired its first session. Her realist writing centered on exploring the negative impact of the social inequality. Her largest work, two-part novel ''Ad astra'' (1933), depicts the rising Lithuanian National Revival. Together with Žemaitė, she co-wrote several plays. Her diary, kept during World War I, was published in 1925–1931 and 2008–2011. Biography Early lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė, mostly known by her pen name Nėris (; 17 November 1904 – 7 July 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Biography Salomėja was born in Kiršai, Suwałki Governorate (current district of Vilkaviškis). She graduated from the University of Lithuania where she studied Lithuanian and German language and literature. After she was a teacher in Lazdijai, Kaunas, and Panevėžys, her first collection of poems titled (''In the Early Morning''), was published in 1927. In 1928, Salomėja graduated from the university and was appointed to teach German language at the gymnasium of the Žiburys Society in Lazdijai. Until 1931, Nėris contributed to nationalist and Roman Catholic publications. While studying German in Vienna, in 1929, Salomėja met Lithuanian medical student Bronius Zubrickas and became attracted to him. Zubrickas had socialist views and Salomėja engaged in socialist activities in order to court him. In 1931, Salomėja moved to live in Kaunas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Mosessohn
Miriam Markel-Mosessohn (; 1839 – December 18, 1920) was a Russian author and translator who wrote in Hebrew. Biography Early life and education Miriam Markel-Mosessohn was born in Volkovyshki, Congress Poland, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish merchant, Shimon Wierzbolowki, and his wife Ḥayyah. She had two brothers, Yosef and Shmuel, and a sister, Devorah; both the daughters and the sons of the family attended the local Jewish school, where they learned to read and write Hebrew; although she did not attend '' ḥeder'' – the traditional elementary school where young boys studied the chumash (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) – her father hired a private tutor so that she could pursue her desire to study scripture. In 1851, at the age of 12, she moved with her family to Suvalk, where she continued her Hebrew studies under the Hebraist . As Balin (2000) notes (p. 32), Kayserling's entry on Markel-Mosessohn was inaccurate on several points, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
