Agnė Lukšytė-Meilūnas

 Agnė Lukšytė-Meilūnas 

1920 - 2007

The writer Agnė Lukšytė-Meilūnienė, born in 1920 in the village of Subačius wjere she grew up with two older brothers. When Agnė graduated from Subačius elementary school, she moved to Panevėžys girls' high school. After graduating in 1939, she entered Kaunas Vytautas the Great University to study Lithuanian language and literature. After the Faculty of Humanities was moved to Vilnius, Agnė also moved there - she studied Lithuanian and German languages.  

In 1944, she moved to Germany and settled in Dresden.  In 1949, she sailed to Australia with her young son Haroldas, settling in Sydney.  

Her first book is a collection of short stories Kalnų velnias published in 1970 in Australia. The second book, Café Po kadagiais, depicts the bombing of Dresden on February 13-20, 1944.  Following this a collection of short stories White chrysanthemum which was published in 1993 in Lithuania.  In 1981, the writer won the America Dirva prize for the short story Zefirantės, in 1994 - the prize of the Society of Expatriate Lithuanian Writers for the collection of short stories "White chrysanthemum".

The novel, Prošvaistė šešėlyje (A Gap in the Shadow) depicts the people of a small Australian town, their life, and their environment.  

• Kalnų velnias, novelės. Belmore, Meiliūnas, 1970 m.

• Kavinė "Po kadagiais", Cafe "Po Kadagiais 4 veiksmų drama. Vilnius, Centrinio pašto dėžė 150, 1993 m.

• Baltoji chrizantema, novelės White chrysanthemum. Vilnius, Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 1993 m., Standartų spaustuvė, 2006 m. 

• Prošvaistė šešėlyje, romanas. Vilnius, J. Nainys: Visuomenės informavimo priemonių valdyba, 1996-1997 m.

Agnė passed away on 23 November 2007 and is buried in the Woronora Memorial Park with her son.