Grigory Kanovich is the last Lithuanian Jewish author with first-hand experience of the shtetls, the small Jewish towns that vanished…
Lithuania will this week attend the Beijing International Book Fair in China, its first ever participation in the event, the…
The Lithuanian reader’s choice Books of the Year for 2015 have been announced with Dalia Staponkutė book of essays, "Out…
The Vilnius Book Fair on February 25-28 will include meetings with over 300 authors and publishers and an entire stand…
Vilnius University's A. J. Greimas Semiotics and Literary Theory Centre has launched an electronic dictionary of literary terms, a cooperation…
Lithuania made a brotherly gesture by paying tribute to the Latvian Poet Laureate Jānis Rainis in his 150th birthday year.…
The Bank of Lithuania has issued into circulation a 5 euro collector's coin, dedicated to literature (from the series Lithuanian…
A book about Lithuania's road to independence, in which Polish journalists look at their neighbours through the eyes of Czeslaw…
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…
The Lithuanian Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium in cooperation with the Lithuanian cultural centre in Belgium organized a literary…
This year, Lithuania hosted several cultural events in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Romain Gary, French novelist, diplomat and…
Vilnius City Municipality is bidding to become the World Capital of Books in 2015 with a rich literary events programme…
The Lithuanian epic poem Seasons (Metai) is a canonic masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775…
MP Vytautas Antanas Matulevičius has proposed to introduce a 5-percent value added tax (VAT) rate on books and non-periodicals instead…
Jura Reilly is Australian-Lithuanian author of short stories and the book A Wolf at Our Door which chronicles the survival…
The nearly year-long commemoration of the 300th birth anniversary of Kristijonas Donelaitis pays tribute to the Prussian-Lithuanian pastor and poet…