People's Poet of the Lithuanian SSR

The People's Poet of the Lithuanian SSR (Lithuanian: Lietuvos TSR liaudies poetas) was a honorary title and a state award of the Lithuanian SSR for distinguished Lithuanian poets. It was established in 1954 and awarded by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.^[1] It was awarded until the re-established independence of Lithuania in 1990.

A similar title was the People's Writer of the Lithuanian SSR (Lietuvos TSR liaudies rašytojas).

People's Poets

1945: Liudas Gira^[1]
1954: Salomeja Neris (post mortem)^[1]
1954: Teofilis Tilvytis^[1]^[2]
1960: Jonas Krikščiūnas^[1]^[3]
1974: Eduardas Mieželaitis^[1]
1978: Justinas Marcinkevičius^[1]
1984: Alfonsas Maldonis [lt]^[1]
1986: Algimantas Baltakis [lt]^[4]

See also

People's Poet for titles of this type in other places

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Zinkus, Jonas, ed. (1986). Lithuania: An Encyclopedic Survey. Vilnius: Encyclopedia Publishers. pp. 419, 424. OCLC 16754907.
^ "Teofilis Tilvytis – Vilnijos vartai".
^ Kubilius, Vytautas (1985–1988). "Jovaras". In Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Vol. II. Vilnius, p. 137
^ "Baltakis Algimantas" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos rašytojų sąjunga. Retrieved 15 May 2023.