Sigitas Geda

Sigitas Geda (February 4, 1943 – December 12, 2008) was a poet and translator in Lithuania.

Education and career

He studied history and philology at Vilnius University. In 1966 his collection Pedos (Footprints) came out.^[1] He was also a leading figure in the Movement for the Support of Perestroika^[2] or Sąjūdis. Although for a time he withdrew from public life of the independent Lithuania over disdain of corruption and infighting.^[3]

His poems were translated into English by Kerry Shawn Keys.

Award

1994 Lithuanian National Prize

References

^ Contemporary East European poetry: an anthology by Emery Edward George, pg 93
^ The New York Times (October 25, 1988)
^ The Baltic revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the path to independence by Anatol Lieven, pg 125

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Name	Geda, Sigitas
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Date of birth	February 4, 1943
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Date of death	December 12, 2008
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