Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (born 1976) is a

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 ...

n writer. Born in

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, she studied Lithuanian language and literature at

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. She worked at a number of magazines afterwards. She has written a number of plays, including ''Liberate the Golden Foal'' (''Išlaisvink auksinį kumeliuką'', 2001) and ''Liučė Skates'' (''Liučė čiuožia'', 2003). ''Liučė Skates'' won the first prize in an international drama festival held in

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in 2004. A collection of her prose and drama (also titled ''Liučė Skates'') was published in 2003, and was selected as one of the 12 best books of the year by the Lithuanian Literature Institute. Her

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''Kvėpavimas į marmurą'' (''Breathing into Marble'', 2006) won the

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in 2009, and has been translated into English. Černiauskaitė is a member of the

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since 2004.

External links

Interview with Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė
in Deep Baltic.
EU Prize for Literature interview with Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cerniauskaite, Laura Sintija 1976 births Writers from Vilnius Lithuanian novelists Living people 21st-century Lithuanian women writers 21st-century Lithuanian writers