Deserving of Lithuania. Professor Kaunas: Ieva Simonaitytė’s contribution to the annexation of Klaipėda region to Lithuania is huge
This year, many events were held in Lithuania to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ieva Simonaitytė, the speaker of the Klaipėda region and the writer of Little Lithuania, and the Seimas declared this year the year of Ieva Simonaitytė.
Simonaitytė left a very bright mark in literature, especially contributing to the perpetuation of Lithuania Minor in her works, and was also an active fighter and social worker, who called on the local residents of Lithuania Minor to join Lithuania, not Germany, several times throughout her life and throughout the history. awarded with various prizes and titles, her most famous novels “Vilius the King” and “The Fate of High Simons” were translated into many languages of the world.
The writer has felt all this since childhood due to poor health, her talent, stubbornness and hard work. Not to mention, Ieva Simonaitytė had no formal education, because she could only stay at home due to her poor health.
This year, events, literary evenings by the writer took place in the country, readers and literary connoisseurs had more opportunities to get acquainted not only with the unique work of Ieva Simonaitytė, but also with her personality.
Famous theater laureate Virginija Kochanskytė has been hosting and creating literary evenings dedicated to Ieva Simonaitytė for several years now, she is a sincere fan of this writer and a disseminator of her literary legacy, Ieva Simonaitytė’s literary laureate.
“It was such an unexpected meeting for me with that wonderful woman, a person who created herself thanks to her talent, will and stubbornness, and when I read her work, I found a testimony of her, so lustful, young, passionate, passionate, as no one else is able to create that of the world in and about oneself. I looked for what she graduated from, what she studied, but there is no date or university… like Vilja Faulkner: “My universities are mine”, Virginija Kochanskytė will share her impressions of Ieva Simonaitytė’s life, personality and work on the show.
Lithuanian librarian, pedagogue, researcher of the culture of Little Lithuania Domas Kaunas, who prepared the book about Ieva Simonaitytė “I am the Eve of Etmės: Ieva Simonaitytė’s contemporaries’ testimonies” devoted his energy and time to researching the work and legacy of writers, has accumulated unique material with the collection of Ieva Simonaitytė.
“While writing the book about Ieva Simonaitytė, I collected many testimonies and interesting facts about this writer and her childhood. Once in the writer’s birthplace near the church, after the service, I found women whom I remembered from the writer’s childhood, when she came to other children’s games, the children asked who you are, and Eve said, “I am Eve, the child of Etme”. This is how the title of my book was born”, Domas Kaunas will say. The writer Ieva Simonaitytė was the illegitimate child of a rich farmer, she was ill from childhood, she had difficulty walking, but thanks to her strong character and talent, people became a classic of Lithuanian literature, she contributed a lot to the fact that Little Lithuania became a part of Lithuania, many people were inclined to choose Germany.
“Ieva Simonaitytė’s contribution to the annexation of the Klaipėda region to Lithuania is huge, when she wrote patriotic poems in 1923, urging the people of the region to choose Lithuania, her political commitment with those primitive poems that she reads in front of the audience is huge, because she said very clearly,, Lithuania”, emphasizes Domas Kaunas.
Even more unheard facts and details about the life and work of one of the most famous Lithuanian writers of the last century, Ieva Simonaitytė, are presented in the program “Nusipelnė Lietuvai. People and events that shaped the state”, Sunday, 9 am. Delphi TV.