Vytautas Alantas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Lithuanian writer and journalist
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Place of Birth: Panevėžys County, Lithuania
About Vytautas Alantas
- Vytautas Alantas (born Vytautas Benjaminas Jakševicius, 18 June 1902 – 24 April 1990) was a Lithuanian writer, journalist, and political ideologue.
- Educated in France, Alantas worked as a journalist of the Lithuanian news agency ELTA and chief editor of the official daily Lietuvos aidas.
- Alantas was one of the leaders of Young Tautininkai, an organization of radical young members of the Lithuanian Nationalist Union in the late 1930s – this movement is also known as Vairininkai after the political magazine Vairas.
- A sympathizer with national socialism, Alantas is considered to be one of the chief ideologues of totalitarian nationalism in interwar Lithuania.
- During the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, he participated in the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and later emigrated to the United States where he dedicated his life to literary work.
- He was a prolific writer and published seven collections of short stories, six novels, fifteen plays, four non-fiction books, and one poetry collection.
- His writings primarily deal with patriotic themes and topics.
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