7/8/2023 0 Comments Jurgis kuncinas tula![]() ![]() Tūla (1993) (novel) translated into English as Tūla, Flossmoor, IL: Pica Pica Press, 2016. ![]() Laba diena, pone Enrike! (1996) (essays).The public library in his hometown Alytus has been renamed after him and holds a biennial literary festival in his memory. His 1996 compilation of essays, Laba diena, pone Enrike!, received an award from the city of Vilnius. Kunčinas received the Lithuanian Writers Union' prize in 1994 for the novel Tūla, set largely in Vilnius's Užupis district. His works, originally published in the Lithuanian language, have been translated into English, German, Russian, Estonian, Belarusian, Swedish, and Polish. He has been described as the chronicler of Soviet bohemianism, who poeticized the individual's internal autonomy as an alternative to the absurdity of social life. Jurgis Kunčinas (13 January 1947 in Alytus, Lithuania – 13 December 2002) was a poet, novelist, translator and essayist. Creating Urban Heterotopia: Uupis in the Focus of Literature and Film (Tula by Jurgis Kuncinas and Ten Minutes Before the Flight of Icarus by Arunas Matelis). ![]()
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