Kristina Sabaliauskaitė „Vilnius: three short stories”
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė „Vilnius: three short stories”
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė, Lithuania’s most widely read writer of fiction and a rare case of bestsellerdom meets quality literature, has a Ph. D. in art history and worked for a number of years as a foreighn correspondent in London for leading Lithuanian daily. She is the author of three run-away best-selling novels („Silva rerum”,”Silva rerum II”,”Silva rerum III”), covering the history of a Lithuanian family of nobles from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century in the magical and too littel-known world of the Grand Duchy of Lithania. The historical novels serve to drive, rather than slow down, the narrative. In her collection of modern stories „Danielius Dalba & Other Stories”, another bestseller, the author shows what a wide canvas and use of language she is capable of. The tree stories chosen here are prose poems to three differnt Vilniuses – and yet the same Vilnius – seen from different perspectives, Polish, Jewish and Lithuanian. A feast awaist the reader.
In 2011 Kristina Sabaliauskaitė was awarded a St. Christopher statue by the Vilnius City Municipality, the highest honour it bestows, for portraying Vilnius in her fiction.
Vilnius = Wilno = ווילנע : three short stories / Kristina Sabaliauskaitė ; translated from the Lithuanian by Romas Kinka. – Vilnius : „Baltų lankų” leidyba, [2015] (Kaunas : Spindulio sp.). – 168 p. : iliustr. – ISBN 978-9955-23-848-5