Violeta Kelertas

Violeta Kelertas is a literary critic, translator, and editor who analyzes the literary scene in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Formerly the PLB Endowed Chair of Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she is now an affiliated professor at the University of Washington. Her translations from the Lithuanian range from the poet Vytautas Ma ernis's "Visions" to the anthology of short stories, "Come into My Time: " Lithuania in Prose Fiction 1970-1990 to a Valdas Papievis...See more

Violeta Kelertas is a literary critic, translator, and editor who analyzes the literary scene in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Formerly the PLB Endowed Chair of Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she is now an affiliated professor at the University of Washington. Her translations from the Lithuanian range from the poet Vytautas Ma ernis's "Visions" to the anthology of short stories, "Come into My Time: " Lithuania in Prose Fiction 1970-1990 to a Valdas Papievis story, "Echo, or the Sieve of Time," recently published in the July-Aug. 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review. Currently she is translating an early Papievis novel, Bryde, dealing with the partisan war after the war in Lithuania. See less