Eugenijus Ališanka 
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Eugenijus Ališanka 
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* 22.02.1960, Barnaul, Russie
Réside à: Vilnius, Lituanie

Eugenijus Ališanka, born 1960 in Barnaul, Russia, is a poet, essayist and translator. Following his graduation from Vilnius University with a major in mathematics, he worked for the Culture and Art Institute of Lithuania. Since 1994 he has been directing the International Programmes of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union. Ališanka is a member of the Union’s Board and PEN club as well as senior coordinator for the international annual poetry festival in Lithuania, ‘The Spring of Poetry’.

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He has published four books of poetry and two essay collections. In 1992, Equinox (1991) won the Zigmas Gėlė Award. The Return of Dionysus (2001) has received the Lithuanian Culture Ministry Award. He is the general editor of the Lithuanian cultural almanac Town Dwellers. E. Ališanka has translated poetry by W. Szymborska, C. Forshé, D. Abse, B. Evaristo, J. Rothenberg, J. Podsiadùo and others. Ališanka has also received a ‘Spring of Poetry' award for his translations of poetry. Ališanka’s own work has been translated into the English, French, Polish, Swedish, Russian, Finnish, German and other languages.

He lives and works in Vilnius.

Publications
  • Lygiadienis (Äquinoktium)

    Gedichte

    Vilnius : Vaga, 1991

  • Peleno miestas (Stadt aus Asche)

    Gedichte

    Vilnius: Regnum, 1995

  • Vaizdijantis žmogus: sacrum sklaida kultūroje (Der darstellende Mensch: Die Saat des Sakralen in der Kultur)

    Studie

    Vilnius: Verlag des litauischen Schriftstellerverbandes, 1998

  • Dievakaulis (Gottes Gebein)

    Gedichte

    Vilnius: Verlag des litauischen Schriftstellerverbandes, 1999

  • Dioniso sugrįžimas: chtoniškumas, postmodernizmas, tyla (Die Rückkehr des Dionys: Chtonie, Postmoderne, Stille)

    Essays

    Vilnius: Verlag des litauischen Schriftstellerverbandes, 2001

  • iš neparašytų istorijų (aus ungeschriebenen geschichten)

    Gedichte

    Vilnius: Vaga, 2002

  • Exemplum

    Poetry

    Vilnius: Vaga, 2006

  • Jeigu (If)

    Poetry

    Vilnius: Lithuanian Writer's Union Publishing House, 2011

  • Stuburo tik punktyrai

    Poetry

    Vilnius: Lithuanian Writer's Union Publishing House, 2016

Prix
  • 1992 Zigmas Gėlė prize

  • 2001 Varpai Literature prize for poetry

  • 2001 Lithuanian Culture Ministry award for essays

  • 2002 Lithuanian Writer's Union award for poetry translations

  • 2012 International Poetry Festival 'Poetry Spring' award for book 'Jeigu'

  • 2016 Poetic Druskininkai Fall Yotvingian prize

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