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Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, is a Lithuanian-born poet, translator, essayist, and literary historian of international stature.  A 1960 graduate of Vilnius University in Lithuanian linguistics, he became a pioneer of Lithuanian structuralist literature. Emigrati ng in 1977 to the US, he published in both countries and was considered an essayist of European scope and penetrating analysis. His poems and essays have been translated worldwide.
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