Salomėja Nėris

Salomėja Bačinskaitė, known as Nėris, was born on 17 November 1904 in Kiršai, in Suvalkija. A graduate of the University of Kaunas in 1928, she taught German in Lazdijai, Panevėžys and then Kaunas, and moved from the neo-Romantic poetry of her beginnings to communist commitment. Married to Bernardas Bučas, she was in 1940 part of the delegation that asked Moscow for the country's entry into the Soviet Union, and wrote a poem in praise of Stalin: these acts still divide her country. She spent the war in Russia and died in Moscow on 7 July 1945, aged forty.

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• PoetryEglė žalčių karalienėSalomėja Nėris · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature