Pranas Morkunas
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Pranas Morkūnas - Lithuanian translator and poet dada
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, Latvia
on 9 October 1900. In 1919 he was volunteer in Lithuanian army, later he participated in Lithuanian Riflemen's Union. From 1924 he was studying Lithuanian language and law at University of Lithuania, was correspondent of Lithuanian press, translated erotic and mystery literature into Lithuanian, was working as administrator of journal Kultūra (Culture). Morkūnas was communist sympathiser http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.
His poem šaipėrantas was published in January 1930, in the first issue of pro-communist literary journal Trečias frontas (The Third front), as "an interesting formal experiment". šaipėrantas was not understood and ridiculed after publication. His collection of dadaist and imaginist
poems Dainuoja degeneratas. Dadaistiški imažinistiniai eilėraščiai was only published in 1993. Poetry of Morkūnas was continuation of rebellion started by The Four Winds
literary movement against traditional poetry http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.
Morkūnas died in the front at Moscow
on 28 December 1941 http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
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Biography and literary works
Morkūnas was born in RigaRiga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
on 9 October 1900. In 1919 he was volunteer in Lithuanian army, later he participated in Lithuanian Riflemen's Union. From 1924 he was studying Lithuanian language and law at University of Lithuania, was correspondent of Lithuanian press, translated erotic and mystery literature into Lithuanian, was working as administrator of journal Kultūra (Culture). Morkūnas was communist sympathiser http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.
His poem šaipėrantas was published in January 1930, in the first issue of pro-communist literary journal Trečias frontas (The Third front), as "an interesting formal experiment". šaipėrantas was not understood and ridiculed after publication. His collection of dadaist and imaginist
Imaginism
Imaginism was a poetic flow inside Russian avant-garde which came about after the Revolution of 1917. It was founded in 1918 in Moscow by a group of poets including Anatoly Marienhof, Vadim Shershenevich, and Sergei Yesenin, who wanted to distance themselves from the Futurists; the name may have...
poems Dainuoja degeneratas. Dadaistiški imažinistiniai eilėraščiai was only published in 1993. Poetry of Morkūnas was continuation of rebellion started by The Four Winds
Keturi vejai
Keturi vėjai was a Lithuanian literary movement and literary journal, active from 1924 to 1928.Keturi vėjai movement began with the publication of The Prophet of the Four Winds by Kazys Binkis...
literary movement against traditional poetry http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.
Morkūnas died in the front at Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
on 28 December 1941 http://www.lle.lt/FMPro?-db=lle2004.fp5&-format=detail.htm&-lay=straipsnis&-op=eq&ID=1587&-find=.