Jurgis Kunčinas was a poet, novelist, and essayist. His works, originally published in the Lithuanian language

Lithuanian language

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, have been translated into English, German, Russian, Estonian, Belarussian, Swedish, and Polish.

Kunčinas received the Lithuanian Writers Union' prize in 1994 for the novel Tūla, set largely in Vilnius

Vilnius

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's Užupis

Užupis

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district. His 1996 compilation of essays, Laba diena, pone Enrike!, received an award from the city of Vilnius.

Selected bibliography

• Takas per girią (1977) (poetry)
• Atidėtas rugsėjis (1984) (poetry)
• Atgimimo kryžius (1990) (poetry)
• Namai be žiburių (1991) (poetry)
• Vaizdas į mėnulį (1989) (essays)
• Baltųjų sūrių naktis (1995) (essays)
• Laba diena, pone Enrike! (1996) (essays)
• Glisono kilpa (1991) (novel)
• Tūla (1993) (novel)