1. Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian writer and Roman Catholic priest who helped to establish the Party of National Progress. His short fiction work, Sin at Easter and Other Stories, was translated into English by...

2. Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian poet, novelist, playwright, and political figure of the 20th Century. His notable works include Folk Songs of the Dainava Region, The Death of King Mindaugas, and He-Witch.

3. Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian poet, novelist, and priest whose literary works dealt with the priesthood and religious faith. He is best remembered for a 1933 novel entitled In the Shadow of the Altars.

4. Balys Sruoga (1896)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic who is best known for a novel entitled The Forest of Gods. The autobiographical work is based on his time spent in a...

5. Salomėja Nėris (1904)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian poet who wrote under the pen name of Neris. Her numerous literary works earned her the 1938 Lithuanian State Literature Prize.

6. Petras Cvirka (1909)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian author who wrote several novels, children's books, and short story collections. His notable works include Frank Kruk, The Artisan and His Sons, and Seeds of Fraternity.

7. Juozas Glinskis (1933)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian playwright known as the pioneer of the Lithuanian theater of cruelty.

8. Icchokas Meras (1934)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian-Jewish writer whose literary work grew out of his childhood experience of the Holocaust. His notable works include Geltonas lopas (The Yellow Patch) and Lygiosios trunka akimirka (A Stalemate Lasts...

9. Tomas Venclova (1937)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian scholar, poet, translator, and teacher. His numerous literary honors include the Lithuanian Cultural Prize, the Russian Baltic Star, and the Polish Borderland Award.

10. Romualdas Granauskas (1939)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian writer of Vortex, a novel set in the Soviet period of Lithuanian history. His short story collections include Bread Eaters, published in 1975, and The Tops of the Trees,...

11. Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961)

Lithuanian Writer

Lithuanian writer of The Year of the Lilies of the Valley. Her other widely-translated works include Two Stories About Suicide, The Day That Never Happened, and 108 Moons.

12. Aldona Gustas (1932)

Lithuanian Writer

Aldona Gustas is a female Lithuanian – German poet and illustrator who has lived in Berlin since the early 1940s.

13. Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (1948)

Lithuanian Writer

Vidmantė Jasukaitytė is a modern Lithuanian writer and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania Spouse - Vincas Rimgaudas Dineika Children: Gintaras Dineika Kestutis...

14. Sigitas Parulskis (1965)

Lithuanian Writer

Sigitas Parulskis is a modern Lithuanian poet essayist playwright and reviewer. In 1990 he graduated from Vilnius University Lithuanian language and literature. He was working in notable journals and newspapers....

15. Andrius Tapinas (1977)

Lithuanian Writer

Andrius Balys Tapinas is a Lithuanian science fiction writer. He is also the anchor of a long-running popular Lithuanian TV programme “The Money Generation”. Tapinas was born and currently resides...

16. Kazys Bradūnas (1917)

Lithuanian Writer

Kazys Bradūnas was a Lithuanian émigré poet and editor. He was born in Kiršai Vilkaviškis District Municipality in Congress Poland. He graduated from Vilnius University where he studied Lithuanian language...

17. Pranas Morkūnas (1900)

Lithuanian Writer

Pranas Morkūnas - Lithuanian translator and poet dadaist.

18. Jonas Biliūnas (1879)

Lithuanian Writer

Jonas Biliūnas was a Lithuanian writer poet and a significant contributor to the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

19. Aleksandras Dičpetris (Unknow)

Lithuanian Writer

Aleksandras Dičpetris was a Lithuanian poet and educator. He first published poetry in 1923 and continued publishing in college. He studied Germanistics and Lithuanian philology and pedagogy at Vytautas Magnus...

20. Vytautas Mačernis (1921)

Lithuanian Writer

Vytautas Mačernis was a Lithuanian poet.

21. Liudas Gira (1884)

Lithuanian Writer

Liudas Gira was a Lithuanian poet writer and literary critic. His is noted for his early poetry which resembles traditional Lithuanian folk songs. Gira was active in cultural and political...

22. Ričardas Mikutavičius (1935)

Lithuanian Writer

Ričardas Mikutavičius was a Lithuanian priest theologist poet and one of the most famous collectors of art in Lithuania.

23. Henrikas Radauskas (Unknow)

Lithuanian Writer

Henrikas Radauskas was a Lithuanian poet and writer. After Lithuania reestablished its independence following the First World War his family returned to Lithuania. There he studied Lithuanian German and Russian...

24. Jurgis Kunčinas (1947)

Lithuanian Writer

Jurgis Kunčinas was a poet novelist and essayist. His works originally published in the Lithuanian language have been translated into English German Russian Estonian Belarussian Swedish and Polish. Kunčinas received...

25. Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (Unknow)

Lithuanian Writer

Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša was a Lithuanian poet translator participant of 1863 Uprising.

26. Sigitas Geda (1943)

Lithuanian Writer

Sigitas Geda was a Lithuanian poet translator playwright essayist critic member of the Lithuanian independence movement Sąjūdis and of the Lithuanian parliament Seimas.

27. Maironis (1862)

Lithuanian Writer

Maironis is one of the most famous Lithuanian romantic poets. He was born in Pasandravys Raseiniai district municipality Lithuania. Maironis graduated from Kaunas high school and went on to study...

28. Kostas Kubilinskas (1923)

Lithuanian Writer

Kostas Kubilinskas was a Lithuanian poet known for his writing for children.