Romualdas Granauskas

Romualdas Granauskas ( born May 18, 1939 in Mažeikiai, ( German: Moscheiken ), Lithuania ) is a Lithuanian author and playwright.

Life

Granauskas graduated from the school in Seda and worked as an editor for the Lithuanian newspaper Mūsų žodis and the magazine Nemunas ( German: Memel river). In later life he took various activities such as construction workers, metal workers and radio reporter, he also worked as a lecturer in Mosėdis.

Work

1954 his first stories in the Medžių viršūnės collection were published as The Tops of the Trees came out in English in 1969. This was followed by the novel Duonos valgytojai ( called bread- Eaters, 1975), in which he tells of the older generation of retired farmers, their customs, traditions and morals. In the same year his novel Jaučio aukojimas appeared, German: The Bull victims, where nature, history and mythology are the themes. In 1988 he published his major work gyvenimas po klevu (English Life under the maple ). The first of his works, published in German in 2011, is the 2003 come out in the original novel The pothole.

Award

• 2000: Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and the Arts ( Lietuvos nacional inėkulturos in meno premija )

Publication in German language

• Duburys German, translated by Gila Rome: The pothole, Roman. Wallenstein Verlag, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0480-2.