Romualdas Granauskas

Romualdas Granauskas was a Lithuanian/Samogitian author and dramaturge. He was born in Mažeikiai, Lithuania.

Biography

After finishing youth labour school in Seda, he worked with the Lithuanian newspaper "Mūsų žodis" and the magazine "Nemunas", established in Skuodas, as an editor. Later on he worked as construction worker, metalworker, radio reporter, and lectured in Mosėdis.
Granauskas started publishing his stories in 1954 in his collection "Medžių viršūnės", and in "Duonos valgytojai", where he spoke about the elder generation of retiring farmers, also about their customs, daily life, moral code. One of the main creations of Romualdas Granauskas is considered to be the novella "Gyvenimas po klevu", which drew the whole society's attention. Nature, history and mythology are the topics of one of the most mature and sophisticated novellas of R.Granauskas "Jaučio aukojimas" .
is a classical artistic novel covering the entire life of the main character during Soviet times in Lithuania. He died in Vilnius on 28 October 2014, aged 75.

Relevant literature

Vaičenonienė, Jurgita. "Lithuanian literature in English: a corpus-based approach to the translation of author-specific neologisms." Doctoral dissertation, Vytautas Magnus University.
Vaičenonienė, Jurgita. "Lithuanian literature in English: The Two English Translation of Romualdas Granauska’s short story ‘The Bread Easters’." Key Cultural Texts in Translation, Edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Adriana Şerban, Fransiska Louwagie. Pp. 95-114. John Benjamins. 2018.