Now the panel of experts will vote on the 5 books that received the most readers’ votes in each category (six books in the category of Lithuanian non-fiction books, as the fifth and sixth place books received the same number of votes each).
This year, the commissions consisted of Audrius Ožalas, Jūratė Čerškutė, Marius Burokas, Jurga Mandrijauskaitė, Lina Buividavičiūtė, Mažvydas Karalius, Neringa Butnoriūtė, Ramunė Brundzaitė.
More information about 15min year’s book selections can be found here.
Top five chosen by readers
FICTION BOOKS BY LITHUANIAN AUTHORS
1. Benas Lastauskas “For those who don’t read” 54 percent.
Publisher: “Laisvės TV”
2. Dalia Staponkutė, “Vivat Regina!” 8 proc.
Publisher: Apostrophe
15 min photo/Dalia Staponkutė, “Vivat Regina!”
3. Kotryna Zylė “Mylimi kaulai” 7 percent.
Publisher: “Goldfish”
15 min photo/Kotryna Zylė “My beloved bones”
4. Sara Poisson “The taste of this life” 6 percent.
Publisher: Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House
15 min photo/Sara Poisson “The taste of this life”
5. Mantas Adomėnas “Coin & Labyrinth” (Parts I and II)
Publisher: “Balto Lankos”
15 min photo/Mantas Adomėnas “Coin & Labyrinth” (Parts I and II)
NON-FICTION BOOKS BY LITHUANIAN AUTHORS
1. Deimantė Rudžinskaitė “Pasaulietė” 18 percent.
Publisher: “Balto Lankos”
15min photo/Deimantė Rudžinskaitė “Pasaulietė”
2. Violeta Tapinienė “Flashes of Reclaimed Time” 14 percent.
Publisher: Tyto Alba
15 min photo/Violeta Tapinienė “Flashes of reclaimed time”
3. Leonidas Donskis “Evil is temporary” (composed by Laimantas Jonušys) 12 percent.
Publisher: Tyto Alba
15min photo/Leonids Donskis “Evil is temporary”
4. Norbert Černiauskas “Fado. A short, unfinished history of Lithuania” 10 percent.
Publisher: “Goldfish”
15 min photo/Norbert Černiauskas “Fado. A short history of Lithuania that did not happen”
5-6. Laima Baršauskienė “Death and less important things”
Publisher: BALTO publishing house
15 min photo/Laima Baršauskienė “Death and less important things”
5-6. Member Kairys “Yura yura. 88 Temple Road’
Publisher: Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House
15min photo/Narius Kairys “Yura yura. 88 Temple Road’
FICTION BOOKS
1. Bartosz Polonski “Robčikas” 12 percent
Slinktys Publishing House
Translator: Evelina Bondar
15min photo/Bartosz Polonski “Robčikas”
2. Georges Perec “Life is a user manual” 11 percent.
Publisher: Lapas
Translator: Akvilė Melkūnaitė
15min photo/Georges Perec “Life as a user manual”
3. Olga Tokarczuk “Empūsijas” 11 percent
Publisher: Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House
Translator: Vyturys Jarutis
15min photo/Olga Tokarczuk “Empusions”
4. Ian McEwan „Pamokos“ 10 proc.
Publisher: Tyto Alba
Translator: Gabrielė Gailiūtė-Bernotienė
15min photo/Ian McEwan “Lessons”
5. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa „Gatopardas“ 10 proc.
Publisher: “Balto Lankos”
Translator: Lina Gaučytė
15min photo/Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa “Gatopardas”
NON-Fiction BOOKS
1. “Natasha’s Dance” by Orlando Figes 16 percent.
Publisher: Science and Encyclopedia Publishing Center
Translator: Rasa Drazdauskienė
15min photo/Orlando Figes “Natasha’s Dance”
2. Rasa Navickaitė “Marija Gimbutienė. Archaeology, the Great Goddess hypothesis, feminism” 13 percent.
Publisher: “Other Books”
Translator: Rima Bartaševičiūtė
15min photo/Rasa Navickaitė “Marija Gimbutienė. Archaeology, The Great Goddess Hypothesis, Feminism”
3. Avram Sutzkever “From Vilnius Ghetto to Nuremberg” (composed by Justin D. Cammy and Saulė Valiūnaitė) 11 percent.
Publisher: Hubris
Translators: Saulė Valiūnaitė, Lara Lempertienė, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
15min photo/Avram Sutzkever “From the Vilnius Ghetto to Nuremberg” (composed by Justin D. Cammy and Saulė Valiūnaitė)
4. Byung-Chul Han’s Fatigue Society 10%.
Publisher: “Other Books”
Translator: Tomas Sodeika
15min photo/Byung-Chul Han “Society of Fatigue”
5. Aleksanda Kasuba “Ticking child” 9 percent.
Publisher: Lithuanian National Art Museum
Translator: Aida Martinaitytė
15 min. photo/Aleksanda Kasuba “Tickling child”
BOOKS OF POETRY BY LITHUANIAN AUTHORS
1. Rūta Mikulėnaitė-Jonuškienė “Walks of Blue Nights” 18 percent.
Publisher: “Scrolls”
15min photo/Rūta Mikulėnaitė-Jonuškienė “Blue Nights Walks”
2. Jurgita Jasponytė “The universe sits in the wrong place” 14 percent.
Publisher: Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House
15 min photo/Jurgita Jasponytė “The universe sits in the wrong place”
3. Austėja Jakas “Blue pleasures” 9 percent.
Publisher: Basilisk
15min photo/Austėja Jakas “Blue pleasures”
4. Aidas Marchėnas “Die: Poems from the Ended World” 8 percent.
Publisher: Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House
15 min photo/Aidas Marchėnas “Die: Poems from the Ended World”
5. Gražvilė Baleišytė “Unrelenting green” 8 percent.
Publisher: Kamonada
15 min photo/Gražvilė Baleišytė “Unrelenting greenness”
TRANSLATED BOOKS OF POETRY
1. Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis “String and wind” 26 percent.
Publisher: “Kauko Stairs”
Translator: Aldona Elena Puišytė
15 min photo/Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis “String and Wind”
2. Inger Christensen “Tai” 15 percent.
Translator: Dovydas Grajauskas
15min photo/Inger Christensen “This”
3. Antanas A. Jonynas, Michael Augustin “1953” 12 percent.
Publisher: Basilisk
Value: Mortimer Drach, Antanas A. Jonynas
15 min photo/Antanas A. Jonynas, Michael Augustin “1953”
4. Ilona Witkowska “where are my children?” 11 percent.
Publisher: Basilisk
Translator: Žilvinas Norkūnas
15min photo/Ilona Witkowska “where are my children?”
5. Aleš Šteger “Burning tongues” 10 percent.
Publisher: “Scrolls”
Translator: Kristina Tamulevičiūtė
15 min photo/Aleš Šteger “Burning tongues”
15 min book selection purpose – draw attention to valuable works of both Lithuanian writers and translated works, their authors and translators, encourage reading. This year, the election is being held for the eighth year in a row.
An essential criterion when evaluating the works, the lasting, artistic, cognitive value of the books, in the case of a translated book, the quality of its translation is also evaluated. Also, the books must be published for the first time in Lithuanian (or it must be a new translation of the book into Lithuanian). Books published since 2023 are evaluated. November 1 until 2024 September 1st.
The authors of Lithuanian books will be awarded 500 euro bonuses, and the same amount of bonuses will be awarded to the translators of the books of the best selected translators – thus emphasizing the importance of translators who translate foreign works into Lithuanian and often remain in the shadows.
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