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 .
Works (in German translation)
- The rain witch. dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13132-2 (Original: Vilnius 1993).
- Placebo. dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24453-4 (Original: Vilnius 2002).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jurga Ivanauskaitė in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography and self-description
- Jurga Ivanauskaitė at The Writers Club (English, viewed May 1, 2018)
- Howard Jarvis: A Colorful Bird in a Pale Land. Why Jurga Ivanauskaitė's books are crying out for translation . Central Europe Review, Vol 2, No 27 10 July 2000. (English, viewed February 20, 2007)
- Howard Jarvis: Best-loved writer Gone with the Dreams. The Baltic Times, March 14, 2007. (English, viewed March 27, 2007)
- The internationally successful Lithuanian writer Jurga Ivanauskaite died at the age of 45 nachrichten.ch, firm / source: sda / Sunday, February 18, 2007
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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 |