{"id":3711,"date":"2026-07-14T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:32:45","slug":"kornelijus-platelis-lietuva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/kornelijus-platelis-lietuva\/","title":{"rendered":"Kornelijus Platelis (Lithuania)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><p>Kornelijus Platelis (b. 1951) has published 10 books of poetry (the first in 1980) and two books of essays. He has also translated many of the most important American and British poets \u2013 among them books by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Robert Bringhurst \u2013 and developed commentary for a new Lithuanian edition of the <em>Bible<\/em>. After Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union he served as Vice Minister for Culture and Education. He was elected President of Lithuanian P.E.N. (1991-1994, 2004-2007), worked as Director of VAGA Publishers in Vilnius (1996-1998), as Minister for Education and Science (1998-2000), and Editor-in-Chief of the culture weekly Literature and Art (2001-2014). Among his awards is the National Award for Culture and Arts in 2002. He is the initiator and Chairman of the Board of the annual international literary festival Druskininkai Poetic Fall, and President of the Lithuanian Association of Artists.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kornelijus Platelis gim\u0117 1951 m. I\u0161leido de\u0161imt poezijos (pirmoji \u2013 1980) ir dvi es\u0117 knygas. Vert\u0117 daugelio svarbi\u0173 amerikie\u010di\u0173 ir<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}