Butkų Juzė (July 21, 1893 – April 22, 1947) was the

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of Juozas Butkus, 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 educator, poet, playwright and journalist. He worked for numerous newspapers from 1910 onwards, including ''

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'', '' Žemaitis'', ''

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'', and '' Naujojoje Lietuvoje''. In 1932 he was inducted into the Lithuanian Journalists' Union. He wrote the play ''Palaidūnas'' (''Prodigal'') in 1925, and translated numerous works into Lithuanian, including

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's '' Egmont''. He later worked as a museum curator and teacher at the Klaipėda Pedagogical Institute.

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