On September 4–6, one of the largest festivals in the capital, “Vilnius Days 2026,” will take place in the center of Vilnius. During it, next to the cathedral, the “Book Square” will be established for the seventh time, it is written…
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As cultural funding decreases, the Lithuanian Council for Culture has limited the number of applications submitted for all funded areas. Until now, project applicants, including publishers, experts…
“Social fears can complicate or even ruin life, so we must understand how to overcome and heal them,” says Christophe André, author of the book “Why We Fear Others”…
The newly established French literature prize was awarded on Tuesday to a taboo-breaking book written by two Russian journalists who fled abroad about Vladimir Putin’s rise to power…
“Book Square” News This year, “Book Square” will grow not only in the number of events – the pavilion located near the cathedral will be slightly larger and more spacious than usual, with 35 publishers presenting their publications, and the literary program will take place for the first time in three locations in Vilnius, inviting…
The literary festival “Open books,” taking place for the eighth time in Vilnius, will invite you to a multitude of events from October 23-28: meetings with well-known Lithuanian and foreign authors,…
Four Italian books, their covers featuring illustrations created by a Lithuanian woman’s hands, and her name officially recorded in the publications themselves. It would seem that this could already be a beautiful…
Only upon learning about the surviving Virginia Woolf house “Monk’s House” (in the village of Rodmell, East Sussex) and “A Room of One’s Own,” where she created her most outstanding works, I dreamed…
Just released, Loreta Jastramskienė’s novel “Birds on Ice” is a story about a difficult time of change in Lithuania, full of hope and disappointments, dedication and…
