{"id":4319,"date":"2026-08-23T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2026-08-24T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T20:46:29","slug":"ruta-mikulenaite-jonuskiene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/ruta-mikulenaite-jonuskiene\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u016bta Mikul\u0117nait\u0117-Jonu\u0161kien\u0117 (Lithuania)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">R\u016bta Mikul\u0117nait\u0117-Jonu\u0161kien\u0117 was born in 1958 in Kloviniai, Utena District. She studied  Lithuanian language and literature at the Vilnius State Pedagogical Institute, completed professional journalism studies at Vilnius University and the Open Lithuania Foundation Journalism Center. She also pursued interdisciplinary studies in mental health jointly organized by Hedmark University College in Norway and Utena College, and obtained a National Vocational Qualification in Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom. She has lived and worked in Scotland for the past twenty years. She published six poetry books, one of them jointly with two other authors. Her book Smilgos pauk\u0161tis (The Bird of Feather Grass, 1996) received the Utena District Department of Culture and Education Prize for the best debut\nof the year. She has also published the collection Papartyn\u0173 aitvaras (The Kite of the Fern Groves, 2015, winner of the Antanas Mi\u0161kinis Literary Prize). Her book M\u0117lyn\u0173 \nnakt\u0173 vie\u0161keliai (Blue Night Highways, 2025) received the Salom\u0117ja N\u0117ris Literary Prize. She is a folk artist and creates traditional straw\ngardens in her spare time. <em>Smilgos pauk\u0161tis <\/em>(1996) \u012fvertinta Utenos rajono Kult\u016bros ir \u0161vietimo skyriaus premija u\u017e geriausi\u0105 met\u0173 debiut\u0105; rinkinys <em>Papartyn\u0173 aitvaras<\/em> (2015) peln\u0117 Antano Mi\u0161kinio literat\u016brin\u0119 premij\u0105, knyga <em>M\u0117lyn\u0173 nakt\u0173 vie\u0161keliai <\/em>(2025) apdovanota literat\u016brine Salom\u0117jos N\u0117ries premija. Tautodailinink\u0117, laisvalaikiu veria \u0161iaudinius sodus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo from personal archive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-wd-paragraph wd-d83e1968\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u016bta Mikul\u0117nait\u0117-Jonu\u0161kien\u0117 gim\u0117 1958 m. Utenos rajone, Klovini\u0173 kaime. Vilniaus valstybiniame pedagoginiame institute studijavo lietuvi\u0173 kalb\u0105 ir literat\u016br\u0105, baig\u0117 Vilniaus<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","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\/4319","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=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdr.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}