Jurgita JASPONYTĖ

Jurgita Jasponytė was born in 1981 in Zarasai. She had recieved a BA in Lithuanian philology and an MA in literature. She works as a librarian in Vilnius, raising her daughters Ugnė and Jūrė Jotvilė. Her poetry collection Šaltupė (the name of a Zarasai street, meaning “cold river”) won the Lithuanian Writer’s Union First Book Contest. In 2015, she won the Zigmas Gėlė Prize for best poetic debut. 

Her second poetry collection Vartai Auštrieji (The Sharp Gates of Dawn) was published in 2019 and was awarded Vladas Šlaitas Prize and also Vilnius Mayor Prize for poems about Vilnius.

The poet is a very original reciter of poetry, imbuing her poems with the tones of folklore songs. Jasponytė’s works have been translated into English, German, Latvian, Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian and Belarusian.

 

Photo (c): Gediminas Kajėnas

  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Swedish Institute
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
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  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Embassy of Sweden
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  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
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  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Scottish Government EU Office
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  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
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