Marija Lastauskienė
Lithuanian writer
Marija Lastauskienė née Ivanauskaitė (Polish: Maria Lastowska, née Iwanowska) (15 May 1872 in Šiauliai – 19 July 1957 in Kaunas) and her sister Sofija Pšibiliauskienė were Lithuanian sisters who wrote under the shared pen name Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazel Owl). Marija married Belarusian literary critic and politician Vaclau Lastouski (Lastauskas), but divorced after a few years.
Biography
Born in Šiauliai, Lastauskienė grew up and spent her youth in a family estate in Paragiai. Her father was painter Nikodem Erazm Iwanowski, mother was Karolina née Peczkiewiczówna. Her family, of Polish–Lithuanian nobility stock, was influenced by Polish culture. Therefore, her native language was Polish and she had difficulties writing in Lithuanian. Lastauskienė did not have formal education and self-educated reading various Polish authors. At the age of sixteen she moved to Warsaw to work as a seamstress at her aunt's shop. She later moved to Saint Petersburg and Riga, before settling down in Vilnius, where her sister lived, in 1907. Encouraged by her sister, Lastauskienė began writing more actively.
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