Marcelijus Martinaitis

Marcelijus Martinaitis was born on 1 April 1936 at Paserbentis, in the Raseiniai district. A graduate in Lithuanian letters from Vilnius University in 1964, he worked on editorial staffs, then taught at the university from 1980 to 2001. A member of the Sąjūdis initiative group in 1988 and a People's Deputy of the Soviet Union in 1989-1990, he later chaired the national prize committee, received the National Prize in 1998 and was translated into more than twenty languages. He died in Vilnius on 5 April 2013.

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• PoetryThe Ballads of KukutisKukučio baladėsMarcelijus Martinaitis · 1977Literature