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Author · Lithuania

Ignas Šeinius

Died in 1959

Ignas Jurkūnas, who signed with the name of his native village, was born on 2 April 1889 in Šeiniūnai. He studied from 1912 to 1915 at the Chaniavsky People's University in Moscow; his first texts had appeared around 1910. Sent to Stockholm in 1915 to help Lithuanians who were victims of the war, he later represented his country in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, then directed the daily Lietuvos aidas in Kaunas. Leaving again for Sweden in 1940, he wrote mostly in Swedish there and took Swedish nationality. He died in Stockholm on 15 January 1959.

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