Matuzevičius, Eugenius

In 1938 he graduated from high school in Birzai . In 1939 - 1943 he studied at the Vytautas the Great University in Kaunas and at Vilnius University . In 1944 - 1946 he worked as a teacher in a gymnasium in Joniškis and in a gymnasium in Panevezys .

Since 1940, a member of the Lithuanian Writers Union . In 1946 - 1953 he worked as an editor at the State Publishing House of Fiction. In 1954 - 1959, a poetry consultant at the Lithuanian Writers Union. From 1961 to 1972 he worked in the editorial office of the weekly newspaper Literatūra ir menas (Literature ir myanas; Literature and Art). Since 1969, the chairman of the commission for artistic translation. In 1970 - 1976 he was the chairman of the revision committee of the Lithuanian Writers Union, in 1976-1994 - a member of the CPF board. ^{[1] [2]}

He died on June 20, 1994 in the town of Krinchinas of the Pasvali region; buried in Vilnius. ^[2]

He has published poems since 1932 ^[3] ; according to other sources, he made his debut in 1932 in the periodicals for children and youth ^[2] . Collaborated in the magazines "Naujoji Romuva" , "Židinys" , "Dienovidis" ^[3] .

In early poetry, the modernist tendencies “}} ^{[3] are} distinct. In the first books of the poems Pavasario taku ( 1941 , 2nd edition 1978 ), Audros paukščiai ( 1944 ), the joy of youth is glorified, forebodings of misfortune, death, rock are expressed, motives of love and disappointment, joy and torment are not uncommon ^[2] .

The post-war collections of poems Darbymečio vėliavos ( 1950 ) and Draugystės daina ( 1953 ) are replete with declarative poems glorifying Soviet life, poeticizing the friendship of peoples and the great constructions of the USSR.

In later poetry books , Negeski, švyturio ugnele ( 1960 ), Mėnesienos krantas ( 1965 ), Vasarvidžio tolumos ( 1968 ), Paukščių Takas ( 1970 ), Žalios metų salos ( 1975 , 2nd 1982 edition; State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR), “Variacijos ir sugrįžimai” ( 1980 ), the lyrical monologue captures impressions and conditions, more precise details of the original picture of the motherland are sought. ^[2]

The author of the lyrics of Lithuanian composers. Together with the conductor and translator, the libretto, Algimantas Kalinauskas, composed the libretto by Vytautas Laurushas' opera “Lost Birds” ( “Paklydę paukščiai” ; staged in 1967 ).

He translated into Lithuanian poems by Mikhail Lermontov (“ Mtsyri ”, 1951 ), Alexander Pushkin (“ Count Nulin ”, 1953 ; “ Prisoner of the Caucasus ”, 1955 ), Pablo Neruda “May the Lumberjack Awaken!” ( 1953 ), poems by Vladimir Lugovsky (collection Poezija , 1963 ), Rainis (collections of Aukso žirgas , 1964 , Ave sol!, 1971 ), Irakli Abashidze (together with Vatsis Reimeris ; collection of Poezija , 1966 ), works by Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Slowacki , Yanki Kupala and other poets. He also translated Maxim Gorky 's autobiographical novels “ Childhood ” ( 1946 ; 4th edition of 1980 ), “ In People ” ( 1948 ; 4th edition of 1981 ), the novel by Nazim Hikmet “Romance” ( 1964 ).

Compiled (together with Arvydas Valenis) a collection of articles devoted to the problems of literary translation “Meninio vertimo problemos: Straipsnių rinkinys” (Vilnius: Vaga, 1980).

Collections of poems by Matuzevičius were published in Belarusian, Latvian, Russian, Ukrainian.

• Laureate of the festival "Spring of Poetry" ( 1971 )
• Honored Art Worker of the Lithuanian SSR ( 1977 )
• State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR (1977; for the book of poems “Žalios metų salos” )
• Honored Worker of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR ( 1986 ) ^[1]

The house, which was built by pharmacist Vilius Matuzevičius in 1928-1929, was lived by his sons, the poets Leonardas Matuzevičius and Eugenius Matuzevičius. After the death of Eugenius Matuzevicius in 1994, a memorial museum of E. and L. Matuzevichiusov (a branch of the Pasvali Museum) was established in this house. ^[four]

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Books in other languages

In Russian

• Dagytė, Emilija; Straukaitė, Danutė. Matuzevičius Eugenijus // Tarybų Lietuvos rašytojai. Biografinis žodynas. - Vilnius: Vaga, 1975. - S. 102-103. - 190 p. - 30,000 copies.

• Donata Mitaitė. Matuzẽvičius (lit.) . Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija . Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras (December 22, 2008). Date of treatment January 1, 2018.
• Matuzevičius Eugenijus (lit.) . Rašytojai . Rasytojai.lt. Date of treatment January 1, 2018. (unavailable link)
• Eugenijus Matuzevičius (English) . Poets . Rasytojai.lt (February 4, 2012). Date of treatment January 1, 2018.