{"id":3717,"date":"2026-07-14T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:36:23","slug":"aivaras-veiknys-lietuva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/aivaras-veiknys-lietuva\/","title":{"rendered":"Aivaras Veiknys (Lithuania)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><p>Aivaras Veiknys (b. 1983) studied Real Estate Management at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University but ended his studies before matriculating. His first book <em>R aktai<\/em> (Keys) was published in 2007. He worked as a journalist in the Lithuanian daily <em>Respublika<\/em>, and has reported from Afghanistan. Aivaras is a co-organizer of the festival \"Literat\u016brin\u0117s Vilniaus slinktys\" (Literary Slips of Vilnius) and he is a compiler of three anthologies for this festival (2011-2013). His second book <em>Pauk\u0161tuko liudijimai<\/em> [The Bird\u2019s Testimony] was published in 2014 and was awarded with prestigious Young Yotvingian prize as a best young poet\u2019s book. He also published a children\u2019s book, a long poem called <em>The Pixie\u2019s Child<\/em>, for which he won the Salom\u0117ja Neris Prize and the LRS prize for children\u2019s literature. He is a member of the Writer\u2019s Union since 2014. His poems have been translated into English, German, Polish, Croatian, Flemish, and Greek.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aivaras Veiknys gim\u0117 1983 m. sausio 9 d. Elektr\u0117nuose. Mok\u0117si Elektr\u0117n\u0173 \u201e\u0104\u017euolyno\u201c vidurin\u0117je mokykloje. 2001 m. \u012fstojo \u012f Vilniaus Gedimino<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3717","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\/3717","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=3717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3717\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}