Where and when it will be possible to say goodbye to the beloved poet, the representatives of the publishing house “Tyto alba” announced. A request was also passed on – to honor her with a summer flower.
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“Farewell will be possible at St. John’s Church on August 18, Tuesday, from 12 to 20 o’clock and on August 19, Wednesday, from 9 to 11 o’clock.
Mass will be held on Wednesday at 11 o’clock.
The urn will be taken out at 12 o’clock.
At 14 o’clock, the funeral will take place at Petrašiūnai Cemetery in Kaunas.
Let us honor Violeta with a summer flower,” the announcement says.
Žmonės.lt reminds that on Friday evening sad news spread – the poet, writer, playwright Violeta Palčinskaitė passed away. She was 82 years old.
In 2023, V. Palčinskaitė received the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize.
At that time, she said she was honored.
“I don’t know if I deserve it, I don’t think about myself that way, but I am definitely very honored. It lifts the spirits, whatever you say, a kind word, encouragement always means a lot to an artist,” writer V. Palčinskaitė told BNS.
“How, I would be lying if I said it doesn’t matter to me – I was very happy because I didn’t really expect it. Children’s literature is not very, very noticed,” said the writer, who received this news from the publisher.
The prize was awarded to the creator for lifetime achievements – she was recognized for “the playfulness of imagination for several generations of readers and the testimony of multifaceted experience in memoirs.”
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More than one generation of Lithuanian children grew up reading the works of poet and playwright V. Palčinskaitė.
Earlier, V. Palčinskaitė mentioned that the decision to become a writer was influenced by her childhood and the books she read.
“There was a lot of parental love in my childhood room, so a lot of joy… Many dolls. Many different games. Many books. And you will be surprised that there was one more very important thing for me: a real medical syringe! Of course, without a needle. In childhood, I wanted to be a doctor. I thought my cat Murza was very lacking vitamins. So, a close family friend, doctor Gimžauskas, gave me that longed-for item for my birthday. After all, there were no toy syringes then. I felt so indescribably happy that I even promised not to resist if I had to be given some vitamins myself…” V. Palčinskaitė recounted.
V. Palčinskaitė was born on November 20, 1943, in Kaunas. From 1960 to 1964, she studied at Vilnius University. After graduating, she became a member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union.
V. Palčinskaitė was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great, the Children’s Literature Prize, the Lithuanian Government’s Culture and Art Prize, and the Lithuanian National Prize.
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