Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961 – 17 February 2007) was a

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 ...

n writer. She was born in

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. While studying at the

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, she wrote her first book, ''The Year of the Lilies of the Valley'', published in 1985. She subsequently published six novels, a children's book and a book of essays. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, German, French and Swedish. After her visits in the

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, she became an active supporter of the Tibet liberation movement. She died from

soft tissue sarcoma A soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumor, a type of cancer, that develops in soft tissue. A soft-tissue sarcoma is often a painless mass that grows slowly over months or years. They may be superficial or deep-seated. Any such unexplained ...

in Vilnius at the age of 45 and is interred in the

Antakalnis Cemetery Antakalnis Cemetery (, , ), sometimes referred as Antakalnis Military Cemetery, is an active cemetery in the Antakalnis district of Vilnius, Lithuania. It was established in 1809. Soldier burials 12 of the 14 victims of the Soviet attacks duri ...

Works translated into English

*''Two Stories About Suicide'' (short story) in: ''Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing'' translated from the Lithuanian by Laima Sruoginis *''The Day that Never Happened'' (short story) in: ''Lithuania in Her Own Words : Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Wriring'' Tyto Alba, 1997, Vilnius. *''Gone with the Dreams'' (excerpt from novel) in: ''The Earth Remains: An anthology of contemporary Lithuanian prose'' Tyto Alba, 2002, Vilnius.

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External links

Biography at Books from Lithuania

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