Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish author. In 1909 she became the first woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imaginat…
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…
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…
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933) buvo Lietuvos rašytojas, spaudos darbuotojas, literatūros istorikas, kritikas, visuomenės veikėjas, pedagogas ir kunigas. Publicistinius straipsnius spausdino nuo 1…
Alvydas Šlepikas - poetas, režisierius, aktorius. Gimė 1966 m. sausio 27 d. Videniškiuose (Molėtų r.). 1988 - 1994 m. mokėsi Lietuvos muzikos akademijoje, kur baigė aktoriaus ir režisieriaus specialyb…
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…
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…
Justinas Žilinskas (g. 1974 m. sausio 3 d. Vilniuje) – rašytojas (Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos narys), vaikų, magiškos ir mokslinės fantastikos, nuotykinės literatūros autorius, publicistas, teisininkas…
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…
Kotryna Zylė (b. 1986) is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer of books. Zylė’s books are often rooted in Lithuanian mythology or include allegorical reflections on key issues in life t…
Arūnas Valinskas (born 28 November 1966 in Lazdijai) is a Lithuanian showman, TV producer, TV show host and politician. As the leader of the National Resurrection Party, he was elected to the Seimas, …
