Giedra Radvilavičiūtė
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė is a Lithuanian writer. She was born in Panevėžys in northern Lithuania, and studied in Vilnius University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature. She taught for a few years in her native region, before returning to Vilnius to work as a journalist. She lived in the USA from 1994 to 1998; her husband Giedrius Subačius, a scholar of Lithuanian, was teaching in Chicago.
Radvilavičiūtė won the EU Prize for Literature for her short story collection Šiąnakt aš miegosiu prie sienos. She lives in Vilnius, where she works as an editor.
