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Irena Veisaitė

1928 - 2020

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Irena Veisaitė (9 January 1928 – 11 December 2020) was a Lithuanian theatre scholar, intellectual and human rights activist. She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 2012 for her contribution to cultural exchange between Germany and Lithuania. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irena Veisaitė is the 3,175th most popular writer (up from 3,978th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 111th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Irena Veisaitė ranks 3,175 out of 7,302Before her are Farag Foda, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Aemilius Macer, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Andre Norton, and Robert Penn Warren. After her are Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, William Langland, Léon Daudet, Tomas Venclova, Alfred Andersch, and Robert Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Irena Veisaitė ranks 254Before her are Bengt Gustavsson, Bob Cousy, Stuart Whitman, Marcel Bozzuffi, Eric Porter, and Pernell Roberts. After her are Sven Davidson, Peter Shirayanagi, Mitchell Ryan, Cristina Calderón, Nils Christie, and Ara Güler. Among people deceased in 2020, Irena Veisaitė ranks 266Before her are Ray Clemence, Cecil Bødker, Juan Marsé, Milton Glaser, Ronald Harwood, and Sonja Edström. After her are Corine Rottschäfer, Abdurrahim El-Keib, Luke Harper, Enzo Mari, Ronald Graham, and Fred Willard.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Irena Veisaitė ranks 88 out of 328Before her are Ieronim Uborevich (1896), Klara Zamenhof (1863), Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Clara Rockmore (1911), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Kazimieras Būga (1879). After her are Tomas Venclova (1937), Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976), Yitzhak Arad (1926), Bernard Berenson (1865), Alma Adamkienė (1927), and Al Jolson (1886).

Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Irena Veisaitė ranks 8Before her are Romain Gary (1914), Simon Dach (1605), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), and Vydūnas (1868). After her are Tomas Venclova (1937), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), and Osip Senkovsky (1800).