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Lithuanian poet to receive Polish award

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Roberto Galea 29.05.2015 13:39
The Jan Nowak-Jeziorański award will be awarded to Lithuanian prose writer and scholar Tomas Venclova.

Venclova was awarded the Prize for his “faithful recreation of values, which are the foundation of European civilization”, the press office of the municipality of Wrocław wrote in a statement.

Tomas Venclova was born September 11, 1937 in Klaipėda in the west of the country. The Lithuanian poet and writer read Philology at the University of Vilnius, then semiotics and Russian literature at the University of Tartu.

He has won many awards during his career including Prize of Two Nations (received jointly with Czesław Miłosz).

The award is granted by the City of Wrocław, Ossolineum, the University of Wrocław and the College of Eastern Europe, and has been given out since 2004. Among the recipients were George H. Bush (2005), Václav Havel (2009), and Zbigniew Brzeziński (2014).

This year’s award ceremony will be held on 3 June in Wrocław. (rg)

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