This is a list of women writers who were born in

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 ...

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Gintarė Adomaitytė Gintarė Adomaitytė (born 30 January 1957 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian journalist. She graduated from Vilnius University in 1980. From 1994–1998 she worked on the magazine DZIĘCIOŁ.*Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia Universal is the adjecti ...

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Loreta Anilionytė Loreta Anilionytė (born in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian philosopher, writer and translator. She is an associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of the Lithuanian University of Educology and a Ph.D. of Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (forme ...

, philosopher, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist, since 2000 *

Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz Yemima Avidar-Tchernovitz ( he, ימימה אבידר-טשרנוביץ; October 8, 1909 – March 20, 1998) was an Israeli author whose works became classics of modern Hebrew children's literature. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1909, she arrived i ...

(1909–1998), Lithuanian-born Hebrew children's writer * Magdalena Avietėnaitė (1892–1984), journalist, diplomat and a public figure

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* Ona Baliukonė (1948–2007), poet, essayist, painter

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Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė (born 1976) is a Lithuanian writer. Born in Vilnius, she studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. She worked at a number of magazines afterwards. She has written a number of plays, including ...

(born 1976), playwright, novelist * Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 1929), scholar, translator

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* Ona Galdikaitė (1898–1990), Lithuanian nun, poet and dissident writer, theological translator *

Marija Gimbutas Marija Gimbutas ( lt, Marija Gimbutienė, ; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, ...

(1921–1994), Lithuanian-American translator, non-fiction writer, writings in German and English on archaeology, Lithuanian culture *

Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the ...

(1869–1940), Lithuanian-born Russian-American memoirist, autobiographer, publisher, anarchist *

Aldona Gustas Aldona Gustas (2 March 1932 – 8 December 2022) was a Lithuanian-German poet and illustrator. Biography Gustas was born in the Lithuanian village of Karceviškiai in 1932. Her family lived for some time in Vilnius, but she and her mother fled ...

(born 1932), Lithuanian-born German-language poet, illustrator, feminist, works translated into several languages

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Esther Hautzig Esther R. Hautzig ( he, אסתר האוציג, born October 18, 1930 – died November 1, 2009 in America) was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book ''The Endless Steppe'' (1968). Esther Hautzig (previously known a ...

(1930–2009), Lithuanian-born American, author of the autobiographical work ''

The Endless Steppe ''The Endless Steppe'' (1968) is a book by Esther Hautzig, describing her and her family's exile to Siberia during Second World War, World War II.Jurga Ivanauskaitė Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961 – 17 February 2007) was a Lithuanian writer. She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, ''The Year of the Lilies of the Valley'', published ...

(1961–2007), novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, some works translated into English

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* Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (born 1948), poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist * Vanda Juknaitė (born 1949), playwright, novelist, memoirist

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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 ...

(1935–2002), novelist, translator, publisher, editor

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Marija Lastauskienė Marija Lastauskienė '' née'' Ivanauskaitė ( pl, Maria Lastowska, née Iwanowska) (15 May 1872 in Šiauliai – 19 July 1957 in Kaunas) and her sister Sofija Pšibiliauskienė were Lithuanian sisters who wrote under the shared pen name '' Laz ...

(1872–1957), novelist, short story writer, journalist, frequently writing jointly with her sister under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, wrote in Polish and Lithuanian *

Meilė Lukšienė Meilutė Julija Lukšienė Matjošaitytė (20 August 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a Lithuanian university professor, cultural historian, and activist. Educated at Vytautas Magnus University, Lukšienė became a professor of literature in 194 ...

(1913–2009), writings on education and Lithuanian culture

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* Edita Mildažytė (born 1966), journalist, talk show host *

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 Jewis ...

(1841–1920), Lithuanian-born Hebrew-language translator of German novels

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* Salomėja Nėris, pen name of Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė (1904–1945), acclaimed poet

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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 start ...

(1861–1943), journalist, novelist, short story writer, playwright *

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 writ ...

(1867–1926), wrote jointly with her sister Marija Lastauskienė under the pen name Lazdynų Pelėda, journalist, short story writer, novelist, usually writing in Polish * Paulina Pukytė (born 1966), artist, poet, essayist, critic

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* Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (born 1960), journalist, short story writer *

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 ...

(born 1967), novelist, worked in advertising

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* Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (born 1974), art historian, historical novelist, short story writer *

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 ''Irk ...

(Witch of

Šatrija Šatrija is a hill and a hillfort in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, near the village, Luokė '' seniūnija'', Telšiai District Municipality.Ieva Simonaitytė Ieva Simonaitytė or Ewa Simoneit (23 January 1897 – 27 August 1978) was a Lithuanian writer. She represented the culture of Lithuania Minor and Klaipėda Region, territories of German East Prussia with historically large, but dwindling, Lith ...

(1897–1978), historical novelist, works often subjected to Soviet censorship

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* Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936), archaeologist * Indrė Valantinaitė (born 1984), poet, singer

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Žemaitė Žemaitė (literally ''female Samogitian'') was the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė ( – 7 December 1921). She was a Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, democrat and educator. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the maj ...

, pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė (1845–1921), novelist, short story writer

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