Ignas Šeinius (tikr. Ignas Jurkūnas, po 1943 m. šved. Ignas Scheynius, 1889 m. balandžio 3 d. Šeiniūnuose, Širvintų valsčius – 1959 m. sausio 15 d. Stokholme, Švedija) – lietuvių ir švedų rašytojas, L…
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one …
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound phi…
Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, whic…
Meras was born in 1934 in Kelmė, a town in northwestern Lithuania, which contained one of the country's oldest Jewish communities. His family perished during the fateful and tragic summer of 1941 when…
Vincas Mickevičius (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954), better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as V…
Vincas Mykolaitis known by his pen name Putinas (literally Viburnum; January 6, 1893 in Pilotiškės – June 7, 1967 in Kačerginė) was Lithuanian poet and writer. He was also a priest, but renounced his …
Born in Łódź, Poland, November 29, 1910, Antanas Škėma was a Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director. Škėma remains, to this day, one of the biggest innovators and standart-bearers of modernism in…
Jonas Biliūnas (11 April 1879 – 8 December 1907) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant participant in the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most of h…
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933) buvo Lietuvos rašytojas, spaudos darbuotojas, literatūros istorikas, kritikas, visuomenės veikėjas, pedagogas ir kunigas. Publicistinius straipsnius spausdino nuo 1…
Kristijonas Donelaitis (January 1, 1714, Lasdinehlen near Gumbinnen, East Prussia – February 18, 1780 Tollmingkehmen, East Prussia; Latin: Christian Donalitius) was a Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and po…
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–87) was born in Kaunas, the former capital of Lithuania. She spent her teenage years in a Siberian gulag. At twenty-one she escaped and returned to her home country only to b…
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.
Juozas Grušas (1901 m. lapkričio 29 d. Žadžiūnuose, Šiaulių valsčius – 1986 m. gegužės 21 d. Kaune) – Lietuvos dramaturgas, prozininkas, vertėjas, eseistas, kultūros veikėjas.
Marcinkevičius was born in 1930 in Važatkiemis, Prienai district. In 1954 he graduated from Vilnius University History and Philology faculty with a degree in Lithuanian language and Literature. He joi…
Žemaitė (literally female Samogitian) – a pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė; 4 June [O.S. 23 May] 1845 in Bukantė near Plungė – 7 December 1921 in Marijampolė) was a Lithuanian/Samogitian w…
