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Eugenijus Ališanka (c) Ricardas Ileika
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Eugenijus Ališanka (born in Barnaul, Russia in 1960) is a poet, translator and essayist. Since he was 2 he has lived in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where he studied Mathematics and was for many years a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Art. From 1995 to 2002 he was the managing director of the international Poetry Spring poetry festival and director of the international programme of the Lithuanian writers’ association. Eugenijus Ališanka is a member of the Lithuanian PEN Club and since 2003 has been editor-in-chief of the magazine The Vilnius Review, which is published in English and Russian. He compares his life as a writer with the situation of Eastern Europe, which he describes as “indefiniteness of the region”, “idiosyncratic non-independence” and “geopolitical and existential unreality”.
Publications (selection):
Gatvė tarp dviejųbažnyčių (The street between two churches). Tytoalba 2012
Four unwritten histories. Host Publications 2011
Uit het archief van ongeschrevenbrieven.Uitgeverij P 2010
Awards/fellowships (selection):
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin fellowship 2015
Literaturhaus Krems fellowship 2012
Poetry Spring Prize for the book of the year 2012
Landis & Gyr Foundation fellowship, Zug 2010
Fellowship Internationales Haus der Autoren, Graz 2009
DAAD Artists in Berlin Programme 2006