Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (born 1960) is a

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n writer. She was born in Panevėžys in northern Lithuania, and studied in Vilnius University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in

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and literature. She taught for a few years in her native region, before returning to

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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

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. Radvilavičiūtė won the

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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.

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