Vidmantė Jasukaitytė
Vidmantė Jasukaitytė (10 July 1948 – 14 July 2018) was a Lithuanian writer and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
Biography
Vidmantė Jasukaitytė was born in 1948 in a village near
From the very beginning of the independence movement in Lithuania, Jasukaityte, who already was well-known national writer, took part in its activity. She founded the Lithuanian Women's Union, started and developed a social protest against Lithuanian men's service in the Soviet Army where they often experienced various forms of humiliation. When the Soviet leader at the time M. Gorbachev was visiting Lithuania, she gave a speech that was broadcast all over Soviet Union and made a considerable impact on the army system – every military unit was obligated to write a letter in which it had to reject Vidmantė . accusations. Letters flooded her house and the Lithuanian Writer's Union. The military newspaper Zvezda (The Star) demanded that she should come and take away stacks of letters that occupied half of the space of their editorial office. The writer also received many telegrams from the ordinary people of Russia. In 1990 she was elected to the Lithuanian Parliament that proclaimed the independence of Lithuania. V. Jasukaityte also signed the Pact of Independence. The political commotion affected her private life. Even though she had never belonged to a party, the writer experienced spiritual isolation as well as open attacks of political extremists. After ten years and a long trip to Egypt, she returned home and started writing again.[2]
Political activities
Jasukaitytė joined the pro-independence
Works
- Fire to be Crossed (poetry, 1976)
- I'm so Far Away (poetry, 1979)
- Miraculous Grass by the Fence (short stories, 1981)
- Man, my Brother (1982)
- Too Much Sun (poetry, 1986)
- Žemaitė (drama, 1986)
- Žilvinas (tragedy, 1988)
- After Us There Is No Us (novel, 1988)
- The Dove That Shall Wait (short stories, 1989)
- Grass Roots (screenplay, 1989)
- The Wolves' Hunt (drama, 1990)
- Say Farewell to Unmined Silver (poetry, 1999)
- Golgotha's Grapes (essays, meditations, prayers, 2001)
- Mary the Egyptian (novel, 2002)
- The True Face of Nonexistence (poetry, 2002)
- Subačius Street. Ghetto (poetry, 2003)
- God Dies Lonely (novel, 2003)
- Miraculous Grass by the Fence (2005)
- When We Were Wolves (novel, 2007)
- After Us There Is No Us (novel, 2005–2008)
- La loba (poetry, 2008)
- What After Nothing? (poetry, 2008)
- I Killed My Daughter (novel, 2008)
References
- ^ "Vidmantė Jasukaitytė" (in Lithuanian). rasyk.lt. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ a b c d e ""Nevaldiškai" apie Vidmantę Jasukaitytę" (in Lithuanian). Karštas komentaras. Retrieved 2008-12-13.