About
Lithuanian writer of The Year of the Lilies of the Valley. Her other widely-translated works include Two Stories About Suicide, The Day That Never Happened, and 108 Moons.
Before fame
She studied at the Vilnius Art Academy.
Trivia
She published six novels, a children's book, and a volume of essays.
Family life
She was raised in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Associated with
She and Czeslaw Milosz were fellow Lithuanian writers.