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Lithuanian poet who remains the most popular poet of the Lithuanian language.Name variations: Salomeja Bacinskaite-Buciene or S.

Bacinskaite-Buciene. Born Salomeja Bacinskaite in Kirsai, Vilkaviskis-Vilkavishky Raion, Russia (now Lithuania), on November 17, 1904; died in Moscow on July 7, 1945; married Bernardas Bucas (a sculptor); children: one.

Selected works:

Anksti ryta (Early in the Morning, 1927); Pedos smely (Prints in the Sand, 1931); On Thin Ice (1935); Diemedziu zydesiu (I Will Bloom Like the Wormwood, c.

1936); Egle 'alciu karaliene (Egle, Queen of the Snakes, 1940); "Poem to Stalin" (1940); "Yasnaya Polyana" (1942); "Bolseviko kelias" (The Path of the Bolshevik, early 1940s); Dainuok, sirdie, gyvenima (Sing to Life, My Heart, 1943); Lakstingala negali neciulbeti (The Nightingale Cannot Help But Sing, 1945); My Land (posthumously published in Russia, 1947).

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