ТОМАС ВЕНЦЛОВА
Поэт, эссеист
Участник выставки "Трансатлантические встречи: андеграунд и новый авангард"
Tomas Venclova, born in Klaipėda (Lithuania) in 1937, is a Lithuanian poet and essayist. He emigrated from Lithuania (then occupied by the USSR) in 1977 as a member of the dissident movement. He taught Russian, Polish and Lithuanian literature at Yale University for many years, and is now a Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures there. A winner of several national and international prizes, he has published more than fifty books. His poetry, written exclusively in Lithuanian, has been translated into twenty-odd languages, including English, Gaelic, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc. His book of memoirs, Magnetic North, written in the form of conversations with Ellen Hinsey, has appeared in English, German, Polish and Ukrainian (a French edition is in preparation).

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