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2010 Program Dates: August 1 - 14


RECOMMENDED READING

Check out this article by Dovid Katz, written for the 2009 Jerusalem Book Fair.

Vilnius: City of Strangers by Laimonas Briedis (available from Amazon) presents an intriguing history of Lithuania's capital. Read an interview with the author in Vilnius Now.

September 2008 National Geographic Traveler rated The Earth Remains (Laima Sruoginis) as one of the best travel reads before venturing off to Lithuania! CLICK HERE to read her wonderful article about Lithuania’s Grutas Park, locally known as “Stalin World” recently published in the Newport Review.

The country is rich in English translations of local poetry. Most of Lithuania’s best known writers are poets.

To Urania: Poems, by Joseph Brodsky (excerpt here).
 

There are two local literary journals with English translations available online: 

Here is the website for the local journal VILNIUS.
and LITUANUS which is printed in Chicago and has reviews, articles, and literary news. 

For all publications of Lithuanian authors in other languages, check the website for BOOKS OF LITHUANIA.  Their mission is to post Lithuanian Literature in translation, and they have books hot off the presses, such as “The Baltic Quintet” (poetry from five Baltic nations published in English) 


DRUNKEN BOAT has a fantastic compilation of Lithuanian poets, with commentary!

CLICK HERE to access a list of Lithuanian prose writers with their biographies and bibliographies.

There are many writers living outside of Lithuania who are influenced by the country:
Read Woman in Bronze, by Antanas Sileika
PEN Anthology: Lithuania: In Her Own Words, an anthology of contemporary Lithuanian writing, (Tyto Alba, Vilnius, 1997) ed. Laima Sruoginis.


“Lady with Cowshit,” Renata Serelyte, The Third Shore: Contemporary East Central European Women’s Prose, (Northwestern University Press, 2006), ed. Agata Schwartz and Luise von Flotow (translated by M. M. De Voe)


READ Antanas Skema’s short story “Steps and Stairs”:

Excellent ARTICLE about the famous Jewish Lithuanian holocaust survivor and writer, now living in Israel: Icchokas Meras