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		<title>15th Thomas Mann Arts Festival taking place in Nida</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/07/15/15th-thomas-mann-arts-festival-taking-place-in-nida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All week guests will be invited to musical, rhetoric, art, and film themed events that are united by the theme “ Native Realm,” (Gimtoji Europa in Lithuanian and Rodzinna Europa in Polish – the Lithuania Tribune), Marija Gabrienė wrote in LRT.lt portal on 10 July.
The festival has been reflecting the life and the work of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kazašas, by Donaldas Kajokas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/07/09/kazasas-by-donaldas-kajokas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leisure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vilnius review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donaldas Kajokas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;an extract from the novel
Erased
1
And so, two days after Christmas Eve, spent with a woman who called herself Maria Magdalene, Izidorius Šalva decided to return to the city. As was his custom, he put on his old velvet jacket. Six years ago he’d sewn a sheet of paper, yellowed with age, into the jacket lining. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition Marking Czesław Miłosz&#8217;s Centennial Opened in VMU History Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/03/07/exhibition-marking-czeslaw-miloszs-centennial-opened-in-vmu-history-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Czesław Miłosz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egidijus Aleksandravičius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In February, the VMU Aula Magna hosted the first of the events dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Nobel Prize for Literature winner&#8217;s Czesław Miłosz&#8217;s birth, the opening of the exhibition &#8220;Sugrįžimas / Powrόt / Return&#8221;. Since March 3, the exposition can be visited in the History Hall of Vytautas Magnus University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12th Book Fair in Vilnius&#8217; began</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2011/02/17/12th-book-fair-in-vilnius-began/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[12th International Book Fair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Lucas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sofi Oksanen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilnius Book Fair 2011]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 12th International Book Fair, the largest of its kind in the Baltic States has opened on 17 February in Vilnius.  This is the most important cultural event in Lithuania this year. The four days Fair will host 330 events; discussions, performances, exhibitions and presentations of books with 220 participants.  Among the guests are Stephen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nation’s Poet dies on the National Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dalia Grybauskaitė]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justinas Marcinkevicius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As Lithuania celebrates its 93rd anniversary of the restoration of Independence, the main theme is sadly not the commemoration or the Polish President’s visit, but the death the people’s poet Justinas Marcinkevicius.
Throughout his career the poet laureate wrote some 1,000 poems and had over 4 million copies of his books published. His poems have became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D. Rogozin: Lithuanians and Russians – One Blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baron Žoltokas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dmitriy Rogozin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s permanent representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, famous for his eccentric views expressed with regard to Lithuania, in Vilnius has revealed  to journalists his new specialization – writer.  In his book, which examines the history of his family, he promised that from it Lithuanians can only expect good, and pointed out that the appearance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uttered in darkness: conversations with children by Vanda Juknaite</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/11/05/uttered-in-darkness-conversations-with-children-by-vanda-juknaite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vanda Juknaite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vilnius review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Loreta
Lithuanian Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 7th class 
V.J. Your life as a young girl has been very painful. What do you think
  about it?
Loreta. I think that it’s truly beautiful. The people who are disappointed in life, maybe they haven’t really experienced it, I don’t know. But those kinds of people really do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeland, By Andrius Jakučiūnas</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/10/08/homeland-by-andrius-jakuciunas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrius Jakučiūnas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shush now! I’m tired of speaking of birds. I’d rather continue untangling that selfsame day before yesterday than endure the sexual allusions that winged creatures give rise to. I know that there is a cinnamon bun lying on the kitchen table. I am very surprised by its presence there. I know myself well enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers and the Baltic Way, by Vytautas Martinkus</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/10/02/writers-and-the-baltic-way-by-vytautas-martinkus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baltic Way]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 20th anniversary of the Sąjūdis Reform Movement reminded me of Soviet Lithuanian literature. Today it seems neither interesting nor important. We, authors, participants in it, who wrote and published something, had a different opinion then. I remember very well how new and paradoxical growing free of censorship of the press was, and how clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Things, by Danutė Kalinauskaitė</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/08/06/just-things-by-danute-kalinauskaite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danutė Kalinauskaitė]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a teacher of the Lithuanian language and literature. Recently I had my seniors write an essay on the topic of “Things” (the idea was suggested by my son: “All the things around us are so objectified; it’s as if they no longer exist …”). I wanted them to write about the most common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The true story about Karlsonas, by Fredrik Rydström</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/31/the-true-story-about-karlsonas-by-fredrik-rydstrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astrid Lindgren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Pankin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Stepantsev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hapsala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ilon Wikland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ingvar Carlsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pippi Longstocking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fredrik Rydström &#124; The Lithuania Tribune
None of Astrid Lindgren’s beloved characters has been as appreciated in Lithuania and the post-Soviet space as Karlsonas (Karlsson-on-the-roof); the chubby, self-absorbed, miniature man with a propeller attached to his back. The story about the relationship between the mischievous Karlsonas and Mažylis (Lillebror), a lonesome ordinary boy suffering through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children of Bluebeard, by Renata Šerelytė</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/24/children-of-bluebeard-by-renata-serelyte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Renata Šerelytė]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is steaming hot. The heat came from nowhere. It runs down your back like water from the Black River. The river is inviting. The river murmurs in its subterranean language. There are many Lithuanian words in that language, especially words with the diphthong uo – a sound the inhabitants of Chornomaisk cannot pronounce: ruduo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Vineyards of the Young Pharaoh, by Petras Dirgėla</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/18/in-the-vineyards-of-the-young-pharaoh-by-petras-dirgela/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can say with confidence that Petras Dirgėla is a creator of historiosophic Lithuanian literature, Renata Šerelytė writes in the Vilnius Review. The cycle of novels Karalystė (The Kingdom), which is a product of arduous work and which has earned him the National Prize for Literature, is a unique phenomenon in Lithuanian literature. The author’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literature: Kęstutis Navakas and ‘The night of a common poet’</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/07/11/literature-kestutis-navakas-and-%e2%80%98the-night-of-a-common-poet%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lithuania Tribune, in cooperation with the Vilnius Review magazine, would like offer you series of articles on contemporary Lithuanian literature.  In cooperation with the magazine the Lithuania Tribune is planning to post articles about books and authors,  extracts from the most interesting recently published works of prose, and verse by Lithuania’s best poets, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XXI, The Baby Born in the Bunker, by Laima Vince</title>
		<link>http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/2010/05/22/xxi-the-baby-born-in-the-bunker-by-laima-vince/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonas Kadžionis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Partizan resistance in Lithuania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Above the bunker, two meters underground, the sky had grown dense with that thick as ink darkness that settled in Lithuania in November and held on until the end of March. A light freezing rain was coming down, creating a cold mist that held close to the ground. But we were snug in the bunker [...]]]></description>
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