Janina Degutytė

Janina Degutytė was born in July 1928 in Šančiai, a suburb of Kaunas. A graduate in Lithuanian literature from Vilnius University in 1955, she taught briefly, worked in a children's library and then became an editor. The author of some twenty collections and many books for children, and a translator of poetry, notably of Rilke and Tsvetaeva, she received the State Prize in 1968 for a collection of the previous year. She died in Vilnius on 8 February 1990.

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• PoetryTylos valandosJanina Degutytė · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature