Tomas Venclova

Tomas Venclova was born in Klaipeda, Lithuania, in 1937. He took part in the Lithuanian and Soviet dissident movements and was one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977 he was forced to emigrate, and since 1985 he has taught at Yale University. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lithuanian National Prize in 2000 and the 2002 Prize of Two Nations, which he received jointly with Czeslaw Milosz. Venclova’s poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. (updated 10/2008)

AGNI has published the following work by Tomas Venclova:

•For R. K. (translated from the Lithuanian by Ellen Hinsey)
•The Opposite Shore (translated from the Lithuanian by Ellen Hinsey)