Sigitas Birgelis
Sigitas Birgelis was born in Puńsk in 1961. He graduated from Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW) in Warsaw. He worked in editorial board of the Lithuanian magazine "Aušra" (editorial board secretary, vice editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief) and in the publishing house "Aušra" in Puńsk (director, vicedirector, editor-in-chief).
He published: Between the shores (original title Tarp krantų) - 1992, Between the dust and forgetting (Tarp durų ir dulkių) - 1993, Poems from that side of God (Eilėraščiai iš anapus Dievo) - 1997, Seven days, seven years (Septynios dienos, septyneri metai) - 1998, 75 poems (75 eilėraščiai) - 1999, From nearby and from far away - 2003. In 1999 he translated into Lithuanian the collection of poems of Mieczysław Czajkowski Jerusalem traces (Jerozolimskie ślady). From 1995 he has been a member of Lithuanian Writers Society in Vilnius.
Lithuanian composer Vytautas Juozapaitis wrote several music pieces as accompaniment to Birgelis' poems (quartet "Motherland has been reborn" /Odrodziła się Ojczyzna/ and professional choirs).
