Mykolas Sluckis (October 20, 1928 – February 25, 2013) was a Lithuanian writer.Ramūnas Gerbutavičius, Rašytojo M. Sluckio talentą gniuždė laiko smagračia ("The talent of the writer M. Sluckis was crushed by the flywheels of time") Mirė rašytojas Mykolas SluckisMykolas Sluckis, Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia
He was among the very few Lithuanian Jewish writers who wrote in Lithuanian.
Biography Sluckis was born in Panevėžys family of a poor craftsman, Gecelis (Hetzel) Sluckis."Mykolas Sluckis", Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum In the Soviet Union his full name in Russian was given as "Миколас Гецелевич Слуцкис".Советские детские писатели - библиографический словарь, 1917-1957, p.342 During World War II, in summer 1941 (when Lithuania was under Soviet occupation) he was evacuated from the Soviet Young Pioneer camp in Palanga and lived in a rural orphanage in Russia, in Malmyzhsky District of the Kirov Oblast. In Winter 1944 he, with many other children, was returned to Vilnius.М. Слуцкис, "Мы — из Паланги!" (""We are from Palanga!), In collection «Дети военной поры», Moscow, Politizdat, 1984"SVAJONĖS IR GYVENIMAS, ARBA RAŠYTOJAS NUO ČIULPTUKO", an interview of Mykolas Sluckis to Gintarė Adomaitytė His parents and brother were killed in Holocaust, only he and his younger sister survived. In 1951, he graduated from the history and philology department of Vilnius University majoring in Russian philology.
At the age of 20, he married to Regina née Važgauskaitė and they had daughter Snieguole.
Works Among other works, Sluckis wrote some 20 books for children and youth, mostly in his early years. He also wrote essays of literary criticism, plays and screenplays.
His novel Laiptai į dangų ("Stairway to Heaven") served as a base for the 1966 ().
His short story Svetimos aistros ("Strangers' Passions") served as a base for the 1983 Latvian film ().
His works have been translated into 25 languages.
Awards and decorations 2004: Officer's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great 1987: Petras Cvirka Prize for the book Medžliepis ("Linden Tree") 1984: Honorary title of People's Writer of the Lithuanian SSR 1972: for the book Merginų sekmadienis ("Girls' Sunday") 1966: Lithuanian SSR State Prize for the short story collection Žingsniai ("Steps")
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