Antanas Venclova

Antanas Venclova ( born January 7, 1906 in Trempiniai at Calvary, † June 28, 1971 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian teacher, literary critic and politician Soviet Lithuania. He wrote the anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Republic.

Life

Until 1932 he studied Lithuanian, Russian and French at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. In 1933, he worked as a teacher in Kaunas, starting in 1934 in Klaipeda. He was there publisher of the journal Third Front.

In 1940, after the occupation of the country by the Soviet Union, he was appointed Minister of Education of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, also a deputy of the Parliament sowjetlitauischen Liaudies Seimas. He was a member of the delegation which asked Moscow to the " recording" of Lithuania to the Soviet Union. During the time of the German occupation of his country he lived in the Soviet Union and was one of the CPSU. In 1944 he came back to Lithuania. In 1952 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

In 1954 he became chairman of the Writers' Union of Lithuania.

He is the father of the writer Tomas Venclova.