Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Laura Sintija Černiauskaitė

Lithuanian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1976

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Profession: writer

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Laura Sintija Cerniauskaite (born 1976) is a Lithuanian writer.
Born in Vilnius, she studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University.
She worked at a number of magazines afterwards. She has written a number of plays, including Liberate the Golden Foal (Išlaisvink auksini kumeliuka, 2001) and Liuce Skates (Liuce ciuožia, 2003).
Liuce Skates won the first prize in an international drama festival held in Berlin in 2004.
A collection of her prose and drama (also titled Liuce Skates) was published in 2003, and was selected as one of the 12 best books of the year by the Lithuanian Literature Institute. Her debut novel Kvepavimas i marmura (Breathing into Marble, 2006) won the EU Prize for Literature in 2009, and has been translated into English.Cerniauskaite is a member of the Lithuanian Writers' Union since 2004.