Jurgis Baltrušaitis
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Jurgis Baltrušaitis (born May 2, 1873 in Paantvardys, Lithuania, died January 3, 1944 in Paris, France) was a Lithuanian poet and a literary translator, who wrote in Lithuanian and Russian.
Baltrušaitis published three collections of poetry in Russian, and another three in Lithuanian. He made many Russian translations of contemporary decadent and modern literature by such writers as Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, and Gabriele D’Annunzio. His translation of Hunger by Knut Hamsun is considered a classical rendering of this work into Russian and has been continuously republished right up to contemporary times. He was also one of the foremost exponents of iconology.
