What makes Lithuanian literature interesting for a US reader?
April 17, 2023
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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1501 UH
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Dalia Satkauskytė
Publishing houses in the United States publish only about one percent of the literature in translation each year, and only a small proportion of that is fiction. We can imagine how small a percentage this is for minor literatures, such as Lithuanian. In this lecture, I will discuss the specifics of Lithuanian literature and present the translations of Lithuanian authors into English. What might be of interest to a US reader: anthropological exoticism, historical narrative, or universal human experience?
Bio: Dalia Satkauskytė (PhD) is Research Director at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and professor at Vilnius university. She is also the winner of the Lithuanian Sciences Prize in Humanities (2020). She has published two monographs, authored more than fifty articles in Lithuanian, English, Russian, French, Polish, and German, and edited three books, including The Literary Field under Communist Rule (2019). Her research interests are: semiotics, semiotics of culture, sociology of literature, world and comparative literature.
Date posted
Mar 28, 2023
Date updated
Mar 28, 2023