Marcelijus Martinaitis
Marcelijus Martinaitis (author page at Amazon
) is the author of fifteen
collections of poetry, five collections of essays, and the recipient
of the 1998 Lithuanian National Award. His major series of poems
is told through the persona of Kukutis, a trickster fool, an archaic
pagan farmer-messenger, who cannot comprehend and does not adjust
to the dictates of the Soviet regime. These texts, specifically,
helped influence the Lithuanian national consciousness. His work
has been translated into at least seven languages, including French,
Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish. He was also one of the first members
of the Lithuanian grassroots political movement. (2007)
AGNI has published the following work by Marcelijus Martinaitis:
