Artūras Antanas Skučas (born March 7, 1961) is a writer and military man of

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. He was trained as an architect and is employed as an officer in the Lithuanian army. He was the editor of Sąjūdžio Žinios, the first non-governmental

periodical publication Periodical literature (singularly called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) consists of Publication, published works that appear in new releases on a regular schedule (''issues'' or ''numbers'', often numerically divided into annu ...

in what was then still Soviet-occupied Lithuania. He was one of the founders of the Savanoriai (the volunteer military). He created, and was the director of, the Apsaugos Skyrius, the first non-Soviet controlled and entirely new intelligence and protective force within the then de facto boundaries of the

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. He has published two books of

poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

. The latest, Einu/The Roadling (2006), is Lithuanian with an English translation. In 2006 Skučas had his first exhibition of photographs and his second in 2007. He is married to Eglė (Martinaitytė) Skučienė and is the father of four children.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Skucas, Arturas Living people Lithuanian male poets 1961 births Lithuanian photographers