Marcelijus Martinaitis
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Marcelijus Martinaitis
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* 01.04.1936, Paserbentis village, Litva
† 05.04.2013, Vilnius, Litva

Marcelijus Martinaitis was a poet, essayist and translator. After receiving technical education in Kaunas, he graduated from Vilnius University majoring in Lithuanian linguistics. He worked for different periodicals. Since 1980 Martinaitis had read folk literature and some other literature subjects as an assistant professor of Vilnius University. The poet was one of the former leaders of the “Sąjūdis” Movement, he was also a deputy of the former Supreme Council of Lithuania and head of the Committee of the National Awards in Literature and Arts and a member of different councils and societies.

Martinaitis started publishing his work in 1955, his first book Balandžio sniegas (April Snow) came out of press in 1962. He published 10 collections of poems, several essay books and plays for puppet theatre. About several hundred of separate essays on different subjects and translations of poetry by Martinaitis have been featured by different periodicals and anthologies. His poetry and essays have been translated into the German, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Georgian, Armenian, Belorussian and other languages.

In 1998 Martinaitis received the National Award in Literature and Art.

He died in Vilnius in 2013.