Antanas Vaičiulaitis
Antanas Vaičiulaitis | |
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| Born | June 23, 1906 Didieji Šelviai, Lithuania |
| Died | August 22, 1992 (aged 86) |
| Resting place | Vilkaviškis city cemetery, Vilkaviškis, Lithuania (reinterred 1999) |
| Alma mater | University of Lithuania (now Vytautas Magnus University) |
| Occupations | Writer; translator; editor; diplomat |
| Notable work | Valentina (1936) |
Antanas Vaičiulaitis (June 23, 1906 – July 22, 1992) was a Lithuanian diplomat, writer, and translator. Vaičiulaitis started writing in the 1930s, creating works distinguished by his particularly bright humanistic worldview and attention to the aesthetic perfection of literary form. Vaičiulaitis is one of the most prominent representatives of Christian humanism in Lithuanian literature, comparable to such 20th-century French and Italian literary masters as André Maurois, François Mauriac, and Giovanni Papini. Through his stylistic refinement and Western creative orientation, he resembles Jurgis Savickis and Henrikas Radauskas, and like them, represents the mature and free artistic culture of independent Lithuania.