Biruté Ciplijauskaité

Abstract

This obituary pays tribute to Biruté Ciplijauskaité (1929-2017). She was an internationally recognized Lithuanian Hispanist, who developed her professional life in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin (USA) from 1960 until her retirement in 2000. His life was affected by the Soviet invasion and, in 1944, he had to leave Lithuania. As for his extensive work as a Hispanist, he wrote ten monographs on authors and subjects of Spanish literature and 120 articles on different topics of comparative literature. Biruté was a living testimony of Lithuanian culture in exile: he translated into Lithuanian a number of Spanish authors, since he spoke more than fifteen languages. In 2015 she was awarded the Governor’s Archive Award by the Wisconsin State Association of Historians and Archivists. The Spanish government had previously granted him the order of Alfonso the Wise.