Petras Cvirka

Petras Cvirka was born in March 1909 in Klangiai, near Veliuona, above the Nemunas. A pupil at the Kaunas art school from 1926 to 1930, he lived in Paris in 1931 and 1932, wrote in the left-wing journal Trečias frontas and published stories and novels. After the Soviet occupation of 1940, he joined the Communist Party, sat in the so-called People's Seimas, which supported the incorporation of the country into the Soviet Union, spent the war in Moscow, then chaired the Writers' Union. He died in Vilnius on 2 May 1947, aged thirty-eight.

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• NovelŽemė maitintojaPetras Cvirka · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature