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J.M. Coetzee - the Nobel laureate's comments for new bilingual poetry book:
Thought and Rock contains poems of remarkable purity, written in a spirit of receptiveness to the world in which the poetic insight suddenly emerges like a bird taking wing.
POETRY READINGS, PUBLICATIONS & OTHER EVENTS
2008
Mintis ir uola/Thought and Rock – Lithuanian/English, Lithuanian Writers Union Publishers, 2008
Some future events:
May: Spring Poetry Festival in Lithuania
Sept. Poetry Festival in Ukraine
October: Druskininkai Poetic Fall, Lithuania
New bilingaul poetry book launches and readings in various parts of Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Skuodas, Alytus, Mažeikiai and elsewhere.
Later in the year, launches and readings are envisaged in Adelaide, Australia.
Australian Composer’s Margery Smith’s composition "Ocean Hum" for voice, flute and piano played by Grevillea ensemble using Lidija Šimkutė’s poetry (from collection "Wind Sheen") to be premiered 25th May at 2.30 pm at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
2007
April: SINGAPORE: Zouk Club - Poetry reading for Word Forward
May: ESTONIA: Tartu Cafe Pierre.
”Prima Vista” Poetry Festival (translations by Auri Jurna),
May: LITHUANIA: Spring Poetry Festival
Poetry readings
in Gėlės Gaidmanavičius Museum, Davatkyne (near Kaunas),
Dieveniškių Museum Garden & other parts of the country.
Panevėžys:
Library
Poetry read in commemoration of Giedrius Gabrėnas
June: RUSSIA: St Peterburg
Poetry read at The Lithuanian Centre. (translations by Vitalij Asovskij )
LITHUANIA: Zelva Guest speaker: Librabrians Conf. for the Blind.
Sept: LITHUANIA:
Kaunas: Maironis Literary Museum & Vytauti Magni Univerity
Poetry read and paper presented on P. Andriušis.
Klaipėda: University Library
Poetry reading and samepaperpresentation .
International University
Poetry reading and workshop in English
Taravos Anikes restaurant - Poetry reading.
Skuodas: City Library - Poetry reading Presented CD
Vilnius: Writers Union Centre
Poetry reading and CD launch with Japanese flute
(Gediminas Sederevičius).Paper presentation on P. Andriušis
with literary critics Dr. Regimantas Tamošaitis & Ramutė Dragentytė
Venclova Museum
Poetry reading for Tomas Venclova’s 70th birthday
October: Tauragnai: City Hall
Paper presentation on Pulgis Andriušis.
Vilnius: Čiurlionis House
Poetry reading with Japanese flute:G.Sederevičius with literary
critic Ramutė Dragentytė and Vaiva Bylaitytės introduction
Vilnius University
Poetry reading and discussion with students
Druskininkai: The Poetry Fall Festival
Poetry reading: CD launch with Japanese flute:G.Sederavičius.
2006
May: AUSTRIA: Vienna.The Salon ( Christian Loidl translations read by Bernhard Widder. Incidental music by Christian Katt)
May: LITHUANIA: Spring Poetry Festival readings in Biržai, Radviliški, Burbišių manor, Pasuvi and Baisogala.
June: The Literary Festival for the Blind - Lake Zelva. Guest speaker and poetry reading:
October: AUSTRALIA: Adelaide SA Writers Centre
Friendly Street Poets - guest reader: .
December: Geelong Australian Lithuanian Festival
Guest reader
Poetry in Translation: Anthologies Magazines & Internet
Bulgarian: XX Century Lithuanian Anthology of Poetry
(translator Aksinia Mihailova), Bulgaria – 2007
www.liternet.bg/publish21/1_shimkute/kratko_1.htm
(translator Aksinia Mihailova) 2007
German: Facetten (Literary Year Book of Linz)..
(translator:Christian Loidl), Linz, Austria – 2007
Podium
(translator Bernhard Widder). Vienna, Austria – No 145/146, 2007
Italian: Quel Sussurro de Nordiche Erbe – Antalogia della Poesia Lituana Contemporanea
(Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry)
(translators B.Ciplijauskaitė & E.Coco) Levante Editori – Bari, 2006 .
In Forma di Parole – Mappa Della poesia lituana del secondo Novecento– numero primo, La Quarta Serie
(translator Pietro U.Dini) – Bolognia, 2006.
Japanese: Ravine
(translator Koichi Yakushigawa)163-165 Kyoto, Japan 2007/8m.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/4-kansai/kokusaikouryuu/Lidija.htm.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/4-kansai/honyakusi/Lidija%Simkute poem.htm
International Exchange Program
(translator Koichi Yakushigawa)
Author’s Translations
J.M. Coetzee: Nobel Lecture: He and His Man,
Naujoji Romuva,
No.1, 2007
Constantine Kaukias IHOS Opera “Olegas”
(for O.Truchanas) libretto translation commission.
First Act, 2007. Performed in Hobart, Tasmania.
Please see Authors CV in Biographies section for Information re Essay
Publications by author as well as Poetry Reviews, Interviews & essays about
author and her works.