Markas Zingeris, a writer and former director of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, has died at the age of 76.
"It is with sadness that we announce that Markas Zingeris, a Lithuanian writer, author of many books on the life of Lithuanian Jews, and long-time director of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, has left us," the museum posted on Facebook on Thursday.
Zingeris headed the museum between 2005 and 2019.
Born in the town of Prienai in 1947, the poet, novelist, playwright and translator graduated in journalism from Vilnius University and later taught philosophy in Kaunas.
He worked in the editorial office of the cultural weekly Šiaurės Atėnai between 1991 and 1995.
Zingeris published three collections of poems, one collection of short stories and five novels. He won the Liudas Dovydėnas Prize for his novel I Sat on Stalin's Knees. He also translated
from English.
Zingeris' works have been translated into English, Yiddish, Dutch, French, Russian and German, and published in prose and poetry collections in Lithuania and abroad.
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