Romualdas Granauskas
Romualdas Granauskas (born May 18, 1939 in Mažeikiai , † October 28, 2014 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian author, writer and dramaturge.
Life
Granauskas graduated from school in Seda (in the Mažeikiai district ) and studied at the Kauno politechnikos institutas in Kaunas . Then he worked as an editor for the Lithuanian newspaper Mūsų žodis and the magazine Nemunas (German: Memel river). In later life he took on various activities such as construction workers, metal workers and radio reporters, he also worked as a lecturer in Mosėdis (in the district of Skuodas ).
His grave is in the Antakalnis cemetery in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius .
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In 1954 his first stories were published in the Medžių viršūnės collection , which was published in 1969 as The Tops of the Trees in English. This was followed by the novel Duonos valgytojai (English Bread Eaters , 1975), in which he tells of the older generation of retired farmers, their manners, customs and morals. In the same year his novella Jaučio aukojimas , German: Das Bullenopfer , appeared, in which nature, mythology and history are the themes. In 1988 he published his main work Gyvenimas po klevu ( Life under the Maple ), which was also made into a film in the same year. The first of his works, which appeared in German in 2011, is the original novel Das Strudelloch, published in 2003 .
Awards
- 2000: Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art (Lietuvos nacional inėkulturos in meno premija)
Prices
Works
- Kenotafas , Neputns, Riga 2006.
Publication in German
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Duburys: romanas. Lietuvos Rašytoju sajunos Leidykla, Vilnius 2003, ISBN 998-6392799 ,
- German, translated by Gila Rom: Das Strudelloch , Roman. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0480-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Romualdas Granauskas in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirė lietuvių rašytojas Romualdas Granauskas
- ↑ Biography (Lithuanian)
- ↑ Po sunkios ligos mirė rašytojas Romualdas Granauskas ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Daily newspaper Lietuvos rytas )
- ^ Honeymoon in uniform gray in: FAZ of October 20, 2011, page 28
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Granauskas, Romualdas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian author and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mažeikiai , Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 2014 |
| Place of death | Vilnius , Lithuania |