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Vanda Juknaitė (born 28 November 1949) is a Lithuanian writer, playwright and essayist.
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Biography
Juknaitė was born in Papiliai in the Rokiškis District Municipality of northeastern Lithuania. After studying Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University, she taught first at the Klaipeda Conservatory and, from 1975, at the University of Educational Science. She has worked in the area of social pedagogy dealing with homeless, disabled and street children.
Her first book Ugniaspalvė lapė (The Red Fox) was published in 1983. One of her more notable works, the memoir Išsiduosi. Balsu: esė, pokalbiai, published in Lithuania in 2002 was translated into English by Laima Sruoginis as My Voice Betrays Me. It presents the joys and difficulties of Lithuania's transition from communism to democracy based essentially on a series of interviews with handicapped or abandoned children. Another work of note is Šermenys (1990), a novel describing the mass deportations of men to Siberia leaving the women to safeguard Lithuanian society.
In 2008, she received the Lithuanian National Prize for her achievements in art and culture and for supporting international understanding of Lithuanian culture.
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