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Interest in books is on the rise, according to sales figures from Lithuanian retail chain “Maxima”. Customers purchased more than 1.2 million books in 2017, and the most intense demand for books in recent years was recorded in the first half of this year. The main reason for this trend is that books...
Over the first six months of this year, national cinema in Lithuania has seen a significant rise in attendance, as evidenced by box office returns: ticket sales of Lithuanian films have almost reached 60% of last year’s total (€2.6 million, compared to €4.5 million in 2017), attracting 500,000 viewe...
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended a presentation of the movie Ashes in the Snow at the Capitol Building on Wednesday as part of her visit in the United States.
Rūta Šepetys, the critically acclaimed Lithuanian-American author of Between Shades of Gray, released a new book in the beginning of February called Salt to the Sea that follows the evacuation from East Prussia in 1945 and the tragic sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustoff – a relatively unknown tragedy t...
You are surrounded by a blizzard and a never-ending snowscape as far as the eye can see. All you can hear is your own breath, and all you can feel is biting cold. From far away, a team of huskies pulls a sleigh. This is the first scene from a movie called Ashes in the Snow currently being filmed bas...
The Lithuanian Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium in cooperation with the Lithuanian cultural centre in Belgium organized a literary evening with Lithuanian-American author Rūta Šepetys.
