Garsva balta drobule7/1/2023 Born in 1910 in Łódź, Poland, Antanas Škėma is seen by Lithuanians as something between a teen idol (the decadently smoldering cigarette in his hand, ironically crooked smile, elegantly crumpled neckerchief) and a classic writer put on a pedestal by academics for expanding Lithuanian literature for its introduction of stream of consciousness and its blunt depiction of madness and sex, existentialism, and even nihilism. The novel White Shroud will be published by Glasgow based independent publishing house Vagabond Voces.įollowing the publication of Antanas Škėma’s Balta drobulė (The White Shroud) in Germany and high praise from publications like Spiegel magazine, an English translation of the novel, by Karla Gruodis, is soon to be published by Vagabond Voices (Glasgow).
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