The Most Famous

WRITERS from Lithuania

This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 22 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 48th most number of Writers behind Iceland, and Israel.

Top 10

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Lithuanian Writers of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Lithuanian Writers.

1. Czesław Miłosz (1911 - 2004)

With an HPI of 69.82, Czesław Miłosz is the most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 99 different languages on wikipedia.

Czesław Miłosz ( MEE-losh, US also -⁠lawsh, -⁠wosh, -⁠wawsh, Polish: [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts". Miłosz survived the German occupation of Warsaw during World War II and became a cultural attaché for the Polish government during the postwar period. When communist authorities threatened his safety, he defected to France and ultimately chose exile in the United States, where he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His poetry—particularly about his wartime experience—and his appraisal of Stalinism in a prose book, The Captive Mind, brought him renown as a leading émigré artist and intellectual. Throughout his life and work, Miłosz tackled questions of morality, politics, history, and faith. As a translator, he introduced Western works to a Polish audience, and as a scholar and editor, he championed a greater awareness of Slavic literature in the West. Faith played a role in his work as he explored his Catholicism and personal experience. He wrote in Polish and English. Miłosz died in Kraków, Poland, in 2004. He is interred in Skałka, a church known in Poland as a place of honor for distinguished Poles.

2. Romain Gary (1914 - 1980)

With an HPI of 65.98, Romain Gary is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages.

Romain Gary (pronounced [ʁɔ.mɛ̃ ga.ʁi]; 21 May [O.S. 8 May] 1914 – 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (pronounced [kat͡sɛf], and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg.

3. Jonas Mekas (1922 - 2019)

With an HPI of 58.42, Jonas Mekas is the 3rd most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages.

Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas's work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide. Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and the journal Film Culture. He was also the first film critic for The Village Voice. In the 1960s, Mekas launched anti-censorship campaigns in defense of the LGBTQ-themed films of Jean Genet and Jack Smith, garnering support from cultural figures including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Norman Mailer, and Susan Sontag. Mekas mentored and supported many prominent artists and filmmakers, including Ken Jacobs, Peter Bogdanovich, Chantal Akerman, Richard Foreman, John Waters, Barbara Rubin, Yoko Ono, and Martin Scorsese. He helped launch the writing careers of the critics Andrew Sarris, Amy Taubin, and J. Hoberman. During World War II, Mekas edited and contributed to two far-right, collaborationist newspapers under the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, the significance of which has been debated by historians. Mekas was born in Semeniškiai, the son of Elzbieta (Jašinskaitė) and Povilas Mekas on December 24, 1922. As a teenager, he attended the Biržai Gymnasium in Biržai, Lithuania. From 1941 to 1942, living under Nazi occupation, he co-edited and published in the culture section of Naujosios Biržų žinios, founded by the far-right, anti-semitic Lithuanian Activist Front. From 1943 to 1944, he co-edited and published in the culture section of Panevėžio apygardos balsas, a weekly local newspaper published by the fascist Lithuanian Nationalist Party. In 1944, Mekas left Lithuania with his brother, Adolfas Mekas. They attempted to reach neutral Switzerland by means of Vienna, with fabricated student papers arranged by their uncle. Their train was stopped in Germany, and they were both imprisoned in a labor camp in Elmshorn, a suburb of Hamburg, for eight months. The brothers escaped and hid on a farm near the Danish border for two months until the end of the war. After the war, Mekas lived in displaced persons' camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. From 1946 to 1948, he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. By the end of 1949 his brother and he had both secured sponsorship through a job in Chicago and emigrated to the United States. When they arrived, the two decided to settle in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two weeks after his arrival, he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex 16mm camera and began recording moments of his life. He discovered avant-garde film at venues such as Amos Vogel's pioneering Cinema 16, and he began curating avant-garde film screenings at Gallery East on Avenue A and Houston Street and at the Film Forum series at Carl Fisher Auditorium on 57th Street. In 1954, Mekas and his brother Adolfas founded the journal Film Culture, and in 1958 he began writing his "Movie Journal" column for The Village Voice. In 1962, he co-founded The Film-Makers' Cooperative, and in 1964 the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which eventually became Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. Along with Lionel Rogosin, he was part of the New American Cinema movement. He was a close collaborator with artists such as Marie Menken, Andy Warhol, Nico, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Salvador Dalí, and fellow Lithuanian George Maciunas. After leaving The Voice over an editorial dispute, for a short time he wrote a column for The SoHo Weekly News. Mekas gave the film Heaven and Earth Magic its title in 1964/65. In 1964, Mekas was arrested on obscenity charges for showing Flaming Creatures (1963) and Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour (1950). He launched a campaign against the censorship board, and for the next few years continued to exhibit films at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, the Jewish Museum, and the Gallery of Modern Art. From 1964 to 1967, he organized the New American Cinema Expositions, which toured Europe and South America, and in 1966 joined the 80 Wooster Fluxhouse Coop. In 1970, Anthology Film Archives opened on 425 Lafayette Street as a film museum, screening space, and library, with Mekas as its director. Mekas, along with Stan Brakhage, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, James Broughton, and P. Adams Sitney, began the ambitious Essential Cinema project at Anthology Film Archives to establish a canon of important cinematic works. Mekas's legs appeared in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's experimental film Up Your Legs Forever (1971). As a filmmaker, Mekas's own output ranged from his early narrative film Guns of the Trees (1961) to "diary films" such as Walden (1969); Lost, Lost, Lost (1975), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972), Zefiro Torna (1992), and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), which have been screened at festivals and museums around the world. Mekas' diary films offered a new perspective to the genre and portrayed the cinematic avant-garde scene of the 1960s. Mekas expanded the scope of his practice with his later works of multi-monitor installations, sound immersion pieces and "frozen-film" prints. Together they offer a new experience of his classic films and a novel presentation of his more recent video work. His work has been exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennial, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, the Ludwig Museum, the Serpentine Gallery, the Jewish Museum, and the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center. In 2007, Mekas released one film every day on his website, a project he entitled "The 365 Day Project." The online diary is still ongoing on Jonas Mekas's official website. It was celebrated in 2015 with a show titled "The Internet Saga" which was curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi at Palazzo Foscari Contarini on the occasion of the 56th Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. Beginning in the 1970s, Mekas taught film courses at the New School for Social Research, MIT, Cooper Union, and New York University. Additionally, Mekas was a writer and published his poems and prose in Lithuanian, French, German, and English. His work has been translated into English by the Lithuanian-American poet Vyt Bakaitis in such collections as Daybooks: 1970-1972 (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2003) and a bilingual anthology of modern Lithuanian verse, Gyvas atodūsis/Breathing Free, poems (Lietuvos, 2001). Mekas published many of his journals and diaries, including I Had Nowhere to Go: Diaries, 1944–1954 and Letters from Nowhere, as well as articles on film criticism, theory, and technique. In 2007, the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center was opened in Vilnius. One of Mekas's last exhibitions, "Notes from Downtown," took place at James Fuentes Gallery on the Lower East Side in 2018. Mekas's last work, Requiem, premiered posthumously at The Shed in New York City on November 1, 2019. The 84-minute video was commissioned by The Shed and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. It screened in tandem with a performance of Verdi's Requiem, conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by the musicAeterna orchestra. In 2018, Ina Navazelskis, an oral historian at the National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum interviewed Mekas for their Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive. There, he discussed his memories of World War II "Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running", the filmmaker's first retrospective in the United States, was organized by Guest Curator Kelly Taxter and on view at the Jewish Museum in the spring of 2022. German filmmaker Peter Sempel has made three films about Mekas' works and life, Jonas in the Desert (1991), Jonas at the Ocean (2004), and Jonas in the Jungle (2013). Mekas married Hollis Melton in 1974. They had two children, a daughter, Oona, and a son, Sebastian. His family is featured in Jonas's films, including Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Mekas died at his home in Brooklyn on January 23, 2019, at the age of 96. Mekas is the subject of a documentary, Fragments of Paradise, which premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. The film received the award for Best Documentary on Cinema at the Festival. Mekas long maintained that, while working for local newspapers, he also clandestinely-transcribed BBC broadcasts in support of the underground. In 2018, an article in the New York Review of Books by historian Michael Casper challenged Mekas's versions of his wartime activities. Casper claims that Mekas participated "in an underground movement in Biržai that supported the 1941 Nazi invasion of Soviet Lithuania" and worked for "two ultranationalist and Nazi propaganda newspapers, until he fled Lithuania in 1944." Casper noted that Mekas's publications in these newspapers were not anti-Semitic. At the time, art critic and historian Barry Schwabsky penned a letter to the editor criticizing Casper's essay. He and Casper had an exchange of letters in the New York Review of Books. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website biography of Mekas maintains that he participated in both the anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi undergrounds. Following the 2022 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Casper published an article entitled "World War II Revisionism at the Jewish Museum" in Jewish Currents. There, he argued that the "art world at large remains deeply invested in the story of Mekas the anti-Nazi", thus perpetuating revisionism not only erasing his roles, but casting him as an anti-Nazi hero. In an article for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Casper's charges against the Jewish Museum, journalist Asaf Shalev also pointed out that two different memos were circulated among the museum employees to dismiss Casper's article. Kelly Taxter, the guest curator of the exhibit, responded to Casper's historical research by saying that "the tone of these emails is often aggressive." This was based on emails shared by the Mekas family, which Shalev also had access to, although Shalev wrote that "Nothing on there looked to me like Casper was bullying Mekas or that Mekas get bullied." Sovietologist Robert van Voren voiced criticisms of Casper's articles. Saulius Sužiedėlis argued, "The review format of the articles allowed Casper to present judgements without the burden of buttressing his allegations with relevant sources and requisite detail. The resulting narrative turns Jonas Mekas's life as a young man into something that it was not." The film scholars J. Hoberman and B. Ruby Rich have shown support for Casper's findings. An article in Film Quarterly, B. Ruby Rich stated that, upon Casper's article, "The wagons started circling immediately to protect a sacred figure of the avant-garde." In 2023, both Casper and Sužiedėlis shared their research and perspectives on Mekas in separate interviews with Lithuanian journalist Karolis Vyšniauskas. Guggenheim Fellowship (1977) Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University (1977) Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco Film Festival (1992) Lithuanian National Prize, Lithuania (1995) Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Kansas City Art Institute (1996) Special Tribute, New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1996) Pier Paolo Pasolini Award, Paris (1997) International Documentary Film Association Award, Los Angeles (1997) Governors Award from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (1997) Atrium Doctoris Honoris Causa, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (1997) Represented Lithuania at the 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennial (2005) United States National Film Preservation Board selects Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry (2006) Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Award (2006) Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2008) Baltic Cultural Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field of Arts and Science (2008) Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruitt's Art Awards (2010) George Eastman Honorary Scholar Award (2011) 'Carry your Light and Believe' Award, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania (2012) Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France (2013) Sources: Guns of the Trees (1962) - 1 hour 15 minutes Film Magazine of the Arts (1963) - 20 minutes The Brig (1964) - 1 hour 8 minutes Empire (1964) - 8 hours 5 minutes Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) - 12 minutes Report from Millbrook (1964–65) - 12 minutes Hare Krishna (1966) - 4 minutes Notes on the Circus (1966) - 12 minutes Cassis (1966) - 4 minutes The Italian Notebook (1967) - 15 minutes Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968) - 4 minutes Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches) (1969) - 3 hours Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971–72) - 1 hour 22 minutes Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) - 2 hours 58 minutes In Between: 1964–8 (1978) - 52 minutes Notes for Jerome (1978) - 45 minutes Paradise Not Yet Lost (also known as Oona's Third Year) (1979) - 1 hour 36 minutes Street Songs (1966/1983) - 10 minutes Cups/Saucers/Dancers/Radio (1965/1983) - 23 minutes Erik Hawkins: Excerpts from "Here and Now with Watchers"/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs (1983) - 6 minutes He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1969/1986) - 2 hours 30 minutes A Walk (1990) - 58 minutes, video Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990) - 35 minutes Mob of Angels/The Baptism (1991) - 1 hour, video Dr. Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum (1991) - 29 minutes Quartet Number One (1991) - 8 minutes Mob of Angels at St. Ann (1992) - 1 hour, video Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992) - 34 minutes The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992) - 3 hours 48 minutes He Travels. In Search of... (1994) - 2 hours Imperfect 3-Image Films (1995) - 6 minutes On My Way to Fujiyama I Met... (1995) - 25 minutes Happy Birthday to John (1996) - 24 minutes Memories of Frankenstein (1996) - 1 hour 35 minutes Birth of a Nation (1997) - 1 hour 25 minutes Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997) - 1 hour 7 minutes Letter from Nowhere – Laiskas is Niekur N.1 (1997) - 1 hour 15 minutes Silence, Please (2000) - 6 minutes, video Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) - 19 minutes, video Remedy for Melancholy (2000) - 20 minutes Symphony of Joy (1997) - 1 hour 15 minutes Song of Avignon (1998) - 5 minutes Laboratorium (1999) - 1 hour 3 minutes Autobiography of a Man Who Carried His Memory in His Eyes (2000) - 53 minutes This Side of Paradise (1999) - 35 minutes Notes on Andy's Factory (1999) - 1 hour 4 minutes Mysteries (1966–2001) - 34 minutes As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - 4 hours 48 minutes Ein Maerchen (2001) - 6 minutes, video Letter to Penny Arcade (2001) - 14 minutes 33 seconds, video Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1950–2003) - 15 minutes Ar Buvo Karas? (2002) - 2 hours 28 minutes Travel Songs 1967-1981 (2003) - 28 minutes Father and Daughter (2005) - 4 minutes 30 seconds, video Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005) - 58 minutes, film and video First Forty (2006) - [durations vary] 365 Day Project (2007) - [durations vary for each of the 365 short films] WTC Haikus (2010) - 14 minutes Sleepless Nights Stories (Premiere at the Berlinale 2011) - 1 hour 54 minutes My Paris Movie (2011) - 2 hours 39 minutes My Mars Bar Movie (2011) - 1 hour 27 minutes Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas (2011) - 1 hour 40 minutes Re: George Maciunas and Fluxus (2011) - 1 hour 27 minutes Mont Ventoux (2011) - 3 minutes Happy Easter Ride (2012) - 18 minutes Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland (2012) - 25 minutes Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012) - 1 hour 8 minutes Requiem (2019) - 1 hour 24 minutes Hans-Jürgen Tast (Hrsg.) "As I Was Moving. Kunst und Leben" (Schellerten/Germany 2004) (z.m.a.K.), ISBN 3-88842-026-1. 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Brooklyn, NY: Anthology Editions. 2017. 464 pp. ISBN 978-1-944860-09-7 [6] Jonas Mekas' website The Anthology Film Archives Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center A Conversation between Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage Archived November 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Interview with Interview Magazine Interview with 3:AM Magazine Jonas Mekas "The Internet Saga", Venice Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database Jonas Mekas interview with Our Culture Mag Jonas Mekas in conversation with the Brooklyn Rail Jonas Mekas poetry in English Jonas Mekas tells his life story at Web of Stories "To Barbara Rubin With Love" by Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas addresses his war time activities. Jonas Mekas at the Serpentine Gallery 2012

4. Simon Dach (1605 - 1659)

With an HPI of 55.30, Simon Dach is the 4th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Simon Dach (29 July 1605 – 15 April 1659) was a German lyrical poet and hymnwriter, born in Memel, Duchy of Prussia (now Klaipėda in Lithuania).

5. Hermann Sudermann (1857 - 1928)

With an HPI of 54.44, Hermann Sudermann is the 5th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.

Hermann Sudermann (30 September 1857 – 21 November 1928) was a German dramatist and novelist.

6. Tomas Venclova (b. 1937)

With an HPI of 53.29, Tomas Venclova is the 6th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Tomas Venclova (born 11 September 1937) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Considered a major figure in world literature, he has received many awards, including the Prize of Two Nations (received jointly with Czesław Miłosz), and The Person of Tolerance of the Year Award from the Sugihara Foundation, among other honors.

7. Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892 - 1938)

With an HPI of 53.16, Branislaw Tarashkyevich is the 7th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.

Branislaw Adamavich Tarashkyevich (Belarusian: Браніслаў Адамавіч Тарашкевіч) (20 January 1892 – 29 November 1938) was a Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist. He was the creator of the first standardization of the modern Belarusian language in the early 20th century. The standard was later Russified by the Soviet authorities. However, the pre-Russified (classical) version of the standard was and still is actively used by intellectuals and the Belarusian diaspora and is informally referred to as Taraškievica, named after Branislaw Tarashkyevich. Tarashkyevich was a member of the underground Communist Party of Western Belorussia (KPZB) in Poland and was imprisoned for two years (1928–1930). Also, as a member of the Belarusian Deputy Club (Беларускі пасольскі клуб, Byelaruski pasol’ski klub), he was a deputy to the Polish Parliament (Sejm) in 1922–1927. Among others, he translated Pan Tadeusz into Belarusian, and in 1969 a Belarusian-language high school in Bielsk Podlaski was named after him. In 1933 he was set free due to a Polish–Soviet prisoner release in exchange for Frantsishak Alyakhnovich, a Belarusian journalist and playwright imprisoned in a Gulag, and lived in Soviet exile since then. He was shot at the Kommunarka shooting ground outside Moscow in 1938 during the Great Purge and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

8. Vydūnas (1868 - 1953)

With an HPI of 52.85, Vydūnas is the 8th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Wilhelm Storost, artistic name Vilius Storostas-Vydūnas (22 March 1868 – 20 February 1953), mostly known as Vydūnas, was a Prussian-Lithuanian teacher, poet, humanist, philosopher and Lithuanian writer, a leader of the Prussian Lithuanian national movement in Lithuania Minor, and one of leaders of the theosophical movement in East Prussia.

9. Francišak Bahuševič (1840 - 1900)

With an HPI of 52.24, Francišak Bahuševič is the 9th most famous Lithuanian Writer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Francišak Bahuševič (Belarusian: Францішак Багушэвіч; Polish: Franciszek Bohuszewicz; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1840 – 28 April [O.S. 15 April] 1900) was a Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer, considered to be one of the initiators of modern Belarusian literature.

10. Irena Veisaitė (1928 - 2020)

With an HPI of 50.33, Irena Veisaitė is the 10th most famous Lithuanian Writer. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Irena Veisaitė (9 January 1928 – 11 December 2020) was a Lithuanian theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist. She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2012 for her contribution to cultural exchange between Germany and Lithuania.

People

Pantheon has 24 people classified as Lithuanian writers born between 1527 and 1961. Of these 24, 2 (8.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Lithuanian writers include Tomas Venclova, and Arvydas Juozaitis. The most famous deceased Lithuanian writers include Czesław Miłosz, Romain Gary, and Jonas Mekas. As of April 2024, 2 new Lithuanian writers have been added to Pantheon including Mikalojus Daukša, and Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna.