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Jurga Ivanauskaitė

Vilnius (Lithuania) 14-11-1961 ‖ Vilnius (Lithuania) 17-02-2007

Periodo de actividad: Desde 1982 hasta 2007

Clasificación geográfica: Europa > Lituania

Movimientos socio-culturales

Edad Contemporánea

Grupos por ámbito de dedicación

Escritoras

Escritoras > Ensayistas

Escritoras > Poetas

Contexto de creación femenina

Jurga Ivanauskaitė was inspired by the painter Frida Kahlo. There was a similar fate because both were seriously ill and died of the disease. They can be compared to the closeness of a particular creative style, both surrealists and modernists.

She was also a traveller. Travelling through India and Tibet inspired her to take a different creative path. She was actively fighting for a free Tibet.

Other Lithuanian women writers of the same period who write about similar topics are Renata Šerelytė, Vanda Juknaitė and Jolita Skablauskaitė.

Reseña

Jurga Ivanauskaite was not only a traveller or writer but also a very dedicated activist, not only travelling and presenting Tibet and its culture to Lithuanian readers but also organizing exhibitions of Tibetan photographs, protests to liberate Tibet, protests against the genocide in Tibet, pickets at the Chinese Embassy in Lithuania. The writer received the pain and injustice of other people, cultures and countries incredibly sensitively and personally and taught people in Lithuania compassion, tolerance and fighting for their beliefs.

Justificaciones

  • She was a feminist. In her books, she talks a lot about gender equality.
  • One of the most famous writers in Lithuania.
  • Also, she is well known in the world as a writer.
  • She met with Dalai Lama and wrote a trilogy about Tibet in one of the books. Dalai Lama wrote the preface.

Biografía

She was born in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union. While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, The Year of the Lilies of the Valley, published in 1985. She subsequently published six novels, a children's book and a book of essays. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, German, and Swedish.

After she visited the Far East, she became an active supporter of the Tibet liberation movement.

She died from soft tissue sarcoma in Vilnius at 45 and is interred in the Antakalnis Cemetery.

Obras


  • Mėnulio vaikai (1988)
  • Ragana ir lietus (Witch and rain) (1993)
  • Placebas (Placebo) (2003)
  • Miegančių drugelių tvirtovė (Sleeping Butterfly Fortress). (2005)
  • Tibeto mandala (Tibet mandala - trylogy) (2006)

Bibliografía

Ramina Jonykaitė, Jurga rašė jauniems, amžinai jauniems, 2021, bernardinai.lt (https://www.bernardinai.lt/jurga-ivanauskaite-rase-jauniems-amzinai-jauniems/

Enfoque Didáctico

Lithuanian Literature.

Documentos