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Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union – 17 February 2007, Vilnius, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian writer.

Studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, her first book was The Year of the Lilies of the Valley, published in 1985. She subsequently published six novels, a children's book and a book of essays. Her works have been translated into several languages, including English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, German, and Swedish.

After her visits in the Far East, she became an active supporter of the Tibet liberation movement.

She died from the soft tissue sarcoma at the age of 45 and is interred in the Antakalnis Cemetery.

Works translated to English

• The Day that Never Happened (short story) in: Lithuania in Her Own Words : Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Wriring Tyto Alba, 1997, Vilnius.
• Gone with the Dreams (excerpt from novel) in: The Earth Remains: An anthology of contemporary Lithuanian prose Tyto Alba, 2002, Vilnius.

External links

• Biography at Books from Lithuania
• Jarvis, Howard (Vol 2, No 27 10 July 2000). "A Colourful Bird in a Pale Land : why Jurga Ivanauskaitė's books are crying out for translation". Central Europe Review. http://www.ce-review.org/00/27/jarvis27.html. Retrieved 2007-02-20.  
• Jurga Ivanauskaitė at The Writers Club Retrieved on 2007-02-20