Jurga Ivanauskaitė

Jurga Ivanauskaitė (14 November 1961 – 17 February 2007) was a Lithuanian writer.

She was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, 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, French and Swedish.

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

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

Jurga Ivanauskaitė at The Writers Club Retrieved on 2007-02-20