Akvilina Cicėnaitė

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Akvilina Cicėnaitė (born in 1979 in Vilnius) is a writer, essayist, and translator, and the author of ten books for children and adults. She studied Lithuanian philology and literary theory at Vilnius University and earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. She subsequently spent eleven years in Sydney. She currently lives in Vilnius, where she teaches creative writing at Vilnius University and is pursuing doctoral studies in literature. Her novel The Dictionary of the English Language has received several literary awards and was named Book of the Year 2022 in the fiction category.

Published by Partizanska knjiga: Rečnik engleskog jezika.