Birutė Ciplijauskaitė

Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (born 11 April 1929 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian literary scholar and translator. The daughter of physician and gynecologist, director of Klaipeda hospital, she attended Kaunas Conservatory and fled Lithuania during World War II. She graduated from the University of Tuebingen in 1956 and then the University of Montreal. Ciplijauskaitė taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1960 until 2000, and was a professor from 1968. She received her PhD in Spanish and French from Bryn Mawr College in 1960. Ciplijauskaitė has been an adviser for Lituanus.