Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova ( born September 11, 1937 in Memel ) is a Lithuanian poet, writer and translator. He is the son of Antanas Venclova, also a writer, but also communist politician of Soviet Lithuania.
Life
Venclova had emigrated from Lithuania in 1977. He teaches at Yale University, USA, Russian and East European literature. In the summer semester 2010 Tomas Venclova held the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship for Literature at the Free University of Berlin.
Awards
- 2013: Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( Grand Cross )
Honors
- Honorary Doctor of Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
- Honorary Doctor of the Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń
- Honorary citizen of Vilnius, since July 2013