Marius Burokas

Marius Burokas (b. 1977) is a poet, freelance writer, translator and editor-in-chief of online magazine of Lithuanian literature “Vilnius Review”. He is the author of four poetry books (the most recent poetry book “of clean being” (švaraus buvimo) was published in 2018 and got the Poetry Spring festival prize). His selected poetry book in English “Now I Understand” was published by “Parthian Books” in 2018. His selected poetry books were also published in Polish and Ukrainian. His poetry has been translated into Polish, Russian, Slovenian, English, German, French, Dutch. Ukrainian and other languages. Marius Burokas translates poetry of American, Canadian, Australian poets and others.
Marius is a Lithuanian Writers’ Union member since 2007 and the member of Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators since 2013. He is also a member of PEN Lithuania. He lives in Vilnius.
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