Jurga Ivanauskaitė

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Jurga Ivanauskaitė

Jurga Ivanauskaitė (born November 14, 1961 in Vilnius , † February 17, 2007 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian writer .

Ivanauskaitė published several novels, published essays and travelogues in daily newspapers.

In her book The Rain Witch , she described the story of three women in very different times who were subjected to repression using the methods customary in the respective epochs and whose love for special men could not be fulfilled. The novel is set in modern Vilnius shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union , in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus and in medieval rural Lithuania. The author had problems in her home country because of the critical examination of the Catholic faith. The Rain Witch was filmed in 2007 under the direction of Algimantas Puipa with the title Nuodėmės užkalbėjimas .

In her later life, Ivanauskaitė turned to Buddhism and became involved in Tibet. With the novel Placebo , she returned thematically to her homeland and the current time. Jurga Ivanauskaitė died of cancer ( sarcoma ) at the age of 45 .

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SURNAME Ivanauskaitė, Jurga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivanauskaite, Jurga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2007
Place of death Vilnius