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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 18:49
Prominent Lithuanian cultural figures receive Polish state awards
Poland has granted high state awards
to Lithuania's theater professionals Martynas Budraitis and Audronius
Liuga, and museum worker Osvaldas Daugelis, and other prominent cultural
figures.
Budraitis, director of the Lithuanian National Drama
Theatre, and Liuga, director of the Lithuanian State Youth Theatre, has
been awarded with the Silver Cross and Daugelis, a former director of the
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, with the Knight's
Cross for their merits in developing Polish-Lithuanian cultural
cooperation, the Polish Institute in Vilnius said.
Other award recipients include Meilute Parnauskiene,
director of the Birute Baltrusaityte Public Library of the municipality of
Taurage, Rasa Griskeviciene, director of the Vladas Slaitas Public
Library of the municipality of Ukmerge, and Terese Matiukiene, director of the
Juozas Keliuotis Public Library of the municipality of
Rokiskis.
A decree on the awards was signed by Polish President
Andrzej Duda and Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr
Glinski.
Deputy Minister of Culture and National
Heritage Magdalena Gawin will present the awards in a ceremony at the
Polish embassy in Vilnius on Tuesday.