Jurga Ivanauskaitė

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Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union – 17 February 2007, Vilnius, Lithuania, European Union) was a Lithuanian writer.

Studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, her first book was The Year of the Lilies of the Valley, published in 1985. She subsequently published six novels, a children's book and a book of essays. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, German, and Swedish.

After her visits in the Far East, she became an active supporter of the Tibet liberation movement.

She died from the soft tissue sarcoma at the age of 45 and is interred in the Antakalnis Cemetery.

[edit] Works translated to English

  • The Day that Newer Happened (short story) in: Lithuania in Her Own Words : Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Wriring Tyto Alba, 1997, Vilnius.
  • Gone with the Dreams (excerpt from novel) in: The Earth Remains: An anthology of contemporary Lithuanian prose Tyto Alba, 2002, Vilnius.

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