The criteria for selection were based on accepted literary values. Period, the drive for innovation in the im m ediate post-Soviet In planning this publication, each country first o f all com piled a list o f the nam es o f its hundred best writers. That explains the reason for this publication, in which portraits o f Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian writers are presented in alphabetical order, irrespective o f their country o f origin. For a long time, the writers, poets, playwrights and literary critics o f each o f these countries have deserved to be introduced to a w ider international literary audience as a regional phenom enon. The conferences ‘The Baltic M em ory: We Have Som ething in C om m on that these institutions have been holding together since 1995 served as a preparation for this pioneering and systematic work. O f Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, the Latvian Institute o f Literature, Folklore and A rt, and the U nder and Tuglas Literature Centre o f the Estonian A cadem y o f Sciences. Years, and the search for a w ider European audience in our times.

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation Latvian State Cultural Capital Foundation Latvian State Research Programme This bo ok should be a useful source o f inform ation on the literature o f the entire region: the classics, works from the Soviet This collective project em erged out o f collaboration between three academ ic institutions, the InstituteĮva Eglaja-Kristsone Virginijus Gasiliūnas Anneli Mihkelev So, it shows the historical and cultural partnerships between the three Baltic countries. Kalnina, Janika Kronberg, Piret Kruuspere, Janina Kursite, Enn Lillemets, Loreta Mačianskaitė, Anneli Mihkelev, Donata Mitaitė, Sigitas Narbutas, Andrus Org, Aare Pilv, Sigutė Radzevičienė, Sandra Ratniece, Hilve Rebane, Anita Rožkalne, Dalia Satkauskytė, Lauri Sommer, Jūratė Sprindytė, Dalia Striogaitė, Ele Sūvalep, Lehte Tavel, Kadri Tūūr, Udo Uibo, Jaan Undusk, Rein Undusk, Mikas Vaicekauskas, Vytautas Vanagas, Imelda Vedrickaitė, Mart Velsker In doingĮpp Annus, Elena Baliutytė, Gintarė Bernotienė, Liucija Citavičiūtė, Marius Daškus, Solveiga Daugirdaitė, Eva Eglaja-Kristsone, Luule Epner, Cornelius Hasselblatt,Viktors Hausmanis, Rutt Hinrikus, Loreta Jakonytė, Algis Kalėda, Benedikts Kalnačs, Ieva Kalnina, Ieva E. Writers from each o f the three Baltic States, starting with the tim e in the 16th century w hen the written w ord first appeared in their national languages, and going on to the twenty-first century (the bibliography goes up to the year 2008). This reference b ook presents a hundred o f the best-known

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