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• PoetryThe SeasonsMetaiKristijonas Donelaitis · 1765A poem composed in the middle of the eighteenth century by a village pastor, which remained in manuscript and was published in 1818 by a professor who gave it its title.Literature
• PoetryGiesmės svietiškos ir šventosAntanas Strazdas · 1814not translated into EnglishThe first collection of original Lithuanian poetry, in which the village song stands alongside the hymn.Literature
• PoetryMužikas Žemaičių ir LietuvosDionizas Poška · 1815not translated into EnglishA poem from the time of serfdom in which the praise of the peasant also speaks of the wrongs done to him.Literature
• PoetryBirutaSilvestras Valiūnas · 1828not translated into EnglishA song drawn from the legend of Kęstutis and the priestess of Palanga, which became a folk song.Literature
• PoetryŠlovė žemaičiųSimonas Stanevičius · 1829not translated into EnglishOde of 1823, published in 1829, in praise of the Samogitian students gathered in Vilnius.Literature
• PoetryThe Forest of AnykščiaiAnykščių šilelisAntanas Baranauskas · 1861A romantic poem in which the felled forest of a small town speaks obliquely of the fate of Lithuania.Literature
• PoetryPavasario balsaiMaironis · 1895not translated into EnglishThe founding collection of the country's modern lyric poetry, printed abroad and smuggled in.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesThe Daughter-in-LawMartiŽemaitė · 1896A marriage made for the sake of land, in which a young woman clashes with the household that has taken her in.Literature
• PoetryTautiška giesmėVincas Kudirka · 1898not translated into EnglishThe poem that became the national anthem, written and set to music by its author twenty years before independence.LiteraturePublic domain
• TaleLietuviškos pasakosJonas Basanavičius · 1898not translated into EnglishVillage tales noted down within a family and printed among the Lithuanians of America.Literature
• NarrativeLiūdna pasakaJonas Biliūnas · 1907not translated into EnglishThe story of a peasant woman broken by the uprising against the tsar, written by a dying author.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelKuprelisIgnas Šeinius · 1913not translated into EnglishAn unhappy love story, told by a hunchbacked organist who has withdrawn to a mill.Literature
• Short storiesPaskenduolėAntanas Vienuolis · 1913not translated into EnglishA pregnant servant, abandoned by everyone, in a village where morality and the Church close their doors.Literature
• NarrativeDėdės ir dėdienėsJuozas Tumas-Vaižgantas · 1920not translated into EnglishThree lives caught in a village of serfdom, around a love that no one dares to speak.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesŠventadienio sonetaiJurgis Savickis · 1922not translated into EnglishA collection from 1922 that replaced with irony and the mask the compassion on which Lithuanian prose had lived until then.Literature
• Poetry100 pavasariųKazys Binkis · 1923not translated into EnglishThe collection of Lithuanian futurism, in which youth, the wind and free verse drive out singing poetry.Literature
• TheatreSkirgailaVincas Krėvė-Mickevičius · 1925not translated into EnglishThe last days of pagan Lithuania, caught between Poland, the Teutonic Order and baptism.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryAmžinas žydasBernardas Brazdžionis · 1931not translated into EnglishA religious, modernist collection, haunted by the end of time and by the search for God.Literature
• NovelAltorių šešėlyVincas Mykolaitis-Putinas · 1933not translated into EnglishThe novel of a torn priest-poet, written by a priest who was about to leave the clergy.Literature
• PoetryVarnos prie plentoAntanas Miškinis · 1935not translated into EnglishPeasant song and the irony of the city dweller, in the second collection of a neo-Romantic poet.Literature
• NovelŽemė maitintojaPetras Cvirka · 1935not translated into EnglishA former volunteer who has become a settler under the land reform, whose hopes run up against debt.Literature
• NovelAukštujų Šimonių likimasIeva Simonaitytė · 1935not translated into EnglishThe chronicle of a Lithuanian family in Prussia over two centuries, from the rank of nobles to that of peasants.Literature
• PoetryUžgesę chimeros akysJonas Aistis · 1937not translated into EnglishThe collection of weariness and extinguished dreams, by a great neo-Romantic poet.Literature
• PoetryEglė žalčių karalienėSalomėja Nėris · 1940not translated into EnglishThe country's most famous tale, set in verse by a great lyric poet.Literature
• PoetryVizijosVytautas Mačernis · 1942not translated into EnglishThe only completed cycle by a young poet who died in 1944, a meditation on life in seven visions.Literature
• NovelBaltaragio malūnas, arba kas dėjosi anuo metu Paudruvės krašteKazys Boruta · 1945not translated into EnglishA pact with the devil in the land of mills, in a novel steeped in Lithuanian folklore.Literature
• NarrativeForest of the GodsDievų miškasBalys Sruoga · 1945The account of a poet deported to Stutthof, who answers the horror of the camp with irony and the grotesque.Literature
• PoetryIdylls of SemeniskiaiSemeniškių idilėsJonas Mekas · 1948The native village brought back to life by a young exile, in pastoral poems written at the end of the war.Literature
• PoetryStrėlė dangujeHenrikas Radauskas · 1950not translated into EnglishThe exile collection of an aesthete poet, between joy of living and melancholy.Literature
• PoetryOrfėjaus medisAlfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas · 1953not translated into EnglishThe second book of an exiled poet, in which the memory of his native country mingles with dream and art.Literature
• NovelFall Comes from the ForestMiškais ateina ruduoMarius Katiliškis · 1957A love triangle in a Lithuanian village ringed by forests, in the last years of peace.Literature
• Feature filmŽydrasis horizontasVytautas Mikalauskas · 1957Children flee their home for the sea, between a childhood dream and a lesson from the adults.Cinema
• NovelWhite ShroudBalta drobulėAntanas Škėma · 1958An exiled poet working as a lift operator in New York relives his whole life between two floors.Literature
• PoetryBeržų lopšinėPaulius Širvys · 1961not translated into EnglishPoems made to be sung, about lost love, in the vein of Lithuanian popular song.Literature
• PoetryNeornamentuotos kalbos generacija ir augintiniaiAlgimantas Mackus · 1962not translated into EnglishHarsh poems of exile, in which God has withdrawn from the world of men.Literature
• NovelStalemateLygiosios trunka akimirkąIcchokas Meras · 1963A young player facing a Nazi officer, and on the chessboard the lives of the ghetto's children.Literature
• Feature filmThe Girl and the EchoPaskutinė atostogų dienaArūnas Žebriūnas · 1964A friendship between children on a shore, over the last day of a summer.Cinema
• Feature filmNobody Wanted to DieNiekas nenorėjo mirtiVytautas Žalakevičius · 1965A Lithuanian village torn between the partisans of the forest and the new Soviet authorities.Cinema
• TheatreMeilė, džiazas ir velniasJuozas Grušas · 1967not translated into EnglishA young girl in love with goodness faces three rebellious boys, in Lithuania in the 1960s.Literature
• Feature filmFeelingsJausmaiAlgirdas Dausa and Almantas Grikevičius · 1968Two twin brothers and the women around them, on the edge of the lagoon, at the end of the war.Cinema
• PoetryBroliai balti aitvaraiHenrikas Nagys · 1969not translated into EnglishShort poems, dedicated to three writer friends, in which exile is expressed in the language of folklore.Literature
• Feature filmBirželis, vasaros pradžiaRaimondas Vabalas · 1970A town on the Neman frozen in waiting, just as the hopes of the thaw die out.Cinema
• PoetryThe Ballads of KukutisKukučio baladėsMarcelijus Martinaitis · 1977A village fool, Kukutis, says in ballads what Soviet censorship does not allow to be said.Literature
• PoetryTylos valandosJanina Degutytė · 1978not translated into EnglishLyric verse in which folklore and myth carry the memory of a people.Literature
• NovelPriešaušrio vieškeliaiBronius Radzevičius · 1979not translated into EnglishThe postwar village and the inner quest of a generation with no way out.Literature
• NovelSakmė apie JuząJuozas Baltušis · 1979not translated into EnglishA heartbroken peasant withdraws into a Lithuanian marsh, where the history of the century ends up reaching him.Literature
• NovelŽalčio žvilgsnisSaulius Tomas Kondrotas · 1981not translated into EnglishLove, passion and old Baltic gods in a Lithuanian village under the Russian yoke.Literature
• Feature filmA Woman and Her Four MenMoteris ir keturi jos vyraiAlgimantas Puipa · 1983A woman among fishermen, in a world of sand and sea where life goes on in spite of everything.Cinema
• NovelVilnius PokerVilniaus pokerisRičardas Gavelis · 1989The paranoia of a gulag survivor under Soviet occupation, told in four voices, the dog's included.Literature
• NovelBees on the SnowKalės vaikaiSaulius Šaltenis · 1990A comic and tender chronicle of Lithuanian peasants of old, under the boot of foreigners.Literature
• NarrativeBalti praėjusios vasaros debesysAntanas Ramonas · 1991not translated into EnglishA wandering through Vilnius, by a man who stands apart from his time.Literature
• Feature filmThree DaysTrys dienosŠarūnas Bartas · 1991Two Lithuanians and two Russians wander around Kaliningrad as the Soviet Union falls apart.Cinema
• NovelTūlaJurgis Kunčinas · 1993A week of love, alcohol and the alleys of Užupis in Vilnius during the last Soviet years.Literature

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