Grigory Kanovich is the last Lithuanian Jewish author with first-hand experience of the shtetls, the small Jewish towns that vanished from the face of the earth in 1941. This interview was given to Swedish journalist […]
Lithuania will this week attend the Beijing International Book Fair in China, its first ever participation in the event, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. […]
The Vilnius Book Fair on February 25-28 will include meetings with over 300 authors and publishers and an entire stand dedicated to Ukraine. […]
Vilnius University‘s A. J. Greimas Semiotics and Literary Theory Centre has launched an electronic dictionary of literary terms, a cooperation of faculty and doctoral students. […]
The Bank of Lithuania has issued into circulation a 5 euro collector’s coin, dedicated to literature (from the series Lithuanian Culture); it was presented at the Writer’s Club in Vilnius to a group of writers and lovers of literature, the central bank said. […]
A book about Lithuania’s road to independence, in which Polish journalists look at their neighbours through the eyes of Czeslaw Okinczyc, a signatory to the Lithuanian Act of Independence, was presented at Warsaw Book Fair on Saturday, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reports. […]
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry will confer its sign of honour award to Austrian writer and translator Cornelius Hell. […]
Lithuanian writer Undinė Radzevičiūtė has been awarded the European Union’s Prize for Literature of 2015. […]
Minority literature studies have a long and diverse history. Since its establishment nearly 25 years ago in the Western academia as well as in the public discourse in the West, it has been accompanied by the critique of the Western Canon in light of liberal pluralism. This critique has led to many revisions of the curriculum, which later provoked a conservative response (especially in the US) and, as some critics claim, minority literature has ended up in a kind of cultural “reservation area”. However, it has been developing as a field of research and, as we can see from the reemergence of conferences and projects on the subject, it is still a hot topic. […]
The Lithuanian Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium in cooperation with the Lithuanian cultural centre in Belgium organized a literary evening with Lithuanian-American author Rūta Šepetys. […]
This year, Lithuania hosted several cultural events in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Romain Gary, French novelist, diplomat and pilot of Lithuanian origin. […]
Vilnius City Municipality is bidding to become the World Capital of Books in 2015 with a rich literary events programme planned for this and next year. The slogan “I read, therefore I am” (“Skaitau, vadinasi, esu”) has been rebranded after the failed application in 2014 with a new, modern perspective. […]
The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775 in the Prussian village of Tolminkiemis. In Metai, rebellious Donelaitis depicted indigenous Lithuanian serfs subjected to mistreatment at the hands of German colonizers. […]
MP Vytautas Antanas Matulevičius has proposed to introduce a 5-percent value added tax (VAT) rate on books and non-periodicals instead of the current 9 percent VAT rate. […]
Jura Reilly is Australian-Lithuanian author of short stories and the book A Wolf at Our Door which chronicles the survival of her relatives who were exiled to Siberia after World War Two. Jura kindly agreed to share one of her short stories about growing up in South Australia with the Lithuania Tribune. […]
The nearly year-long commemoration of the 300th birth anniversary of Kristijonas Donelaitis pays tribute to the Prussian-Lithuanian pastor and poet whose magnitude of legacy in Lithuanian literature has been shaped up by the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons (Metai), in which he depicted everyday life of Lithuanian peasants, their struggle with serfdom, and the annual cycle of life. […]
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