Benediktas Janu\u0161evi\u010dius was born in 1973 in Vilnius. He edited the magazine Jaunimo gretos and worked on the weekly Literat\u016bra ir menas and the monthly newspaper Metai. He collaborated with the Vilnius Teachers\u2019 House in organizing literary readings, was one of the organizers of the festival Literat\u016brin\u0117 sostin\u0117s \u017eiema (2001\u20132004), and compiled its anthology. In 2002, together with Darius Pocevi\u010dius, he founded and administered the website tekstai.lt. He has organized exhibitions of visual poetry. He photographs and films cultural events, develops the website Tekstai TV, and translates contemporary Ukrainian poetry.\nHe is the author of nine poetry collections. In 2007, he received the Young Yotvingian Prize for the books 0+6: eil\u0117ra\u0161\u010diai-daiktai (0+6: poems-objects, 2006) and Raugintu krauju (Pickled Blood, 2007). His work has been translated into English, Latvian, Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Slovenian, Portuguese, and Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Devyni\u0173 poezijos rinkini\u0173 autorius. 2007 m. u\u017e knygas \u201e0+6: eil\u0117ra\u0161\u010diai-daiktai\u201c (2006) ir \u201eRaugintu krauju\u201c (2007) apdovanotas Jaunojo jotvingio premija. K\u016brybos i\u0161versta \u012f angl\u0173, latvi\u0173, rus\u0173, lenk\u0173, baltarusi\u0173, slov\u0117n\u0173, portugal\u0173 ir ispan\u0173 kalbas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Benediktas Janu\u0161evi\u010dius gim\u0117 1973 m. Vilniuje. Redagavo \u017eurnal\u0105 \u201eJaunimo gretos\u201c, dirbo savaitra\u0161\u010dio \u201eLiterat\u016bra ir menas\u201c ir m\u0117nra\u0161\u010dio \u201eMetai\u201c redakcijose. Bendradarbiavo<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetai","category-poetai-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}