Literature

The Martynas Mažvydas National Library has acquired Postilė, a collection of Lithuanian sermons authored by Evangelical Lutheran priest Jonas Bretkūnas, one of the originators of Lithuanian printed literature.

UK publishing house, Noir Press, announced that Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich has just won the €20,000 EBRD Literature Prize - a prestigious award celebrating literature in translation.

Noir Press announced that Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich has just been long-listed for the EBRD Literature Prize - a prestigious award celebrating literature in translation.

Нобелевский комитет назвал лауреатов премии по литературе за 2018 и 2019 годы.

Lithuanian author Daina Opolskaite has won the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for "Dienu Piramides" ("Pyramids of Days"), a collection of short stories, Tyto Alba, the publisher of the book, said.

Lithuania will this week attend the Beijing International Book Fair in China, its first ever participation in the event, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

Nepasotinimas amerikietės Shirley Chidsey kelionių ir nuotykių alkis Antrojo pasaulinio karo metais ją nubloškė net į Kongą. Ten jauna moteris dirbo Strateginių tarnybų valdybos (angl. Office of Strategic Services (OSS)) šnipe ir padėjo Jungtinėms Amerikos Valstijoms kaupti ir nuo nacių slėpti urano...

The Lithuanian reader’s choice Books of the Year for 2015 have been announced with Dalia Staponkutė book of essays, "Out of the Two I Pick the Third: My Little Odyssey" taking the top award in the adult category.

The Vilnius Book Fair on February 25-28 will include meetings with over 300 authors and publishers and an entire stand dedicated to Ukraine.

Vilnius University's A. J. Greimas Semiotics and Literary Theory Centre has launched an electronic dictionary of literary terms, a cooperation of faculty and doctoral students.

Menininkai intymias moters akimirkas pavertė meno kūriniu. Nuotraukose ir vaizdo įrašuose jie įamžino tai, ko mes dažnai nedrįstame parodyti net ir pačiam artimiausiam savo žmogui - savo palaimos iškreipto veido. Menininkai fiksavo moteris orgazmų metu ir parodė, kad patirdamos aukščiausią palaimą j...

Lithuania made a brotherly gesture by paying tribute to the Latvian Poet Laureate Jānis Rainis in his 150th birthday year. A memorial plaque was unveiled today in Vilnius, where Gediminas Technical University is now located (formerly the Regional Courthouse).

The Bank of Lithuania has issued into circulation a 5 euro collector's coin, dedicated to literature (from the series Lithuanian Culture); it was presented at the Writer's Club in Vilnius to a group of writers and lovers of literature, the central bank said.

A book about Lithuania's road to independence, in which Polish journalists look at their neighbours through the eyes of Czeslaw Okinczyc, a signatory to the Lithuanian Act of Independence, was presented at Warsaw Book Fair on Saturday, the daily Lietuvos Rytas reports.

Lithuania's Culture Ministry will confer its sign of honour award to Austrian writer and translator Cornelius Hell.

Lithuanian writer Undinė Radzevičiūtė has been awarded the European Union's Prize for Literature of 2015.

Minority literature studies have a long and diverse history. Since its establishment nearly 25 years ago in the Western academia as well as in the public discourse in the West, it has been accompanied by the critique of the Western Canon in light of liberal pluralism. This critique has led to many r...

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.

This year, Lithuania hosted several cultural events in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Romain Gary, French novelist, diplomat and pilot of Lithuanian origin.

Vilnius City Municipality is bidding to become the World Capital of Books in 2015 with a rich literary events programme planned for this and next year. The slogan “I read, therefore I am” (“Skaitau, vadinasi, esu”) has been rebranded after the failed application in 2014 with a new, modern perspectiv...