juvenilia

About Virginija Kulvinskaite

Virginija Kulvinskait-Cibarausk is a writer literary critic and scholar and editor of the review section of the Lithuanian culture magazine Literatra ir menas (Literature and Art). She has been publishing literary reviews since 2010. In 2017 she was awarded a PhD in Philology. She writes fiction poetry and prose under the name Virginija Kulvinskait. Her first publications of poetry appeared in 2007 and she is now the author of two books: the poetry collection Antrinink (The Double 2017) and the novel kai a buvau malalietka (when i was a malalietka 2019 appearing here in extracts as Juvenilia). Her work has been translated into English German Russian Latvian and Ukrainian. Julija Gulbinovi translates between English Lithuanian and Croatian and from Arabic. She has translated Mate Matii Dubravka Ugrei and the Serbian classic Milo Crnjanski into Lithuanian and Lithuanian EU Prize for Literature laureate winner Daina Opolskait into Croatian. In 2017-2018 she was part of the British Council and the Lithuanian Culture Institutes literary translation mentorship programme and honed her translation skills at the UEA Summer School. She came to literary translation from studies of Lithuanian Philology and Croatian Language at Vilnius University followed by an MA in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She is also a poet.