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Apr 05, 1896 Beržiniai, Lithuania Died on 30 May 1917 (aged 21)
Lithuanian poet
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About Julius Janonis
- Julius Janonis (4 April 1896 – 30 May 1917) was a Lithuanian poet and writer.
- Born to a family of poor peasants, he began writing and translating poems at the age of 14.
- Learning from Maironis, he wrote about nature and suffering of the poor.
- His first poems were published in 1912.
- While still a student, he began contributing articles to Lithuanian press and joined activities of leftist aušrininkai.
- He was a social-democrat but leaned more and more towards communism and his poetry became more and more political agitation.
- His views become even more radical when during World War I he evacuated to Voronezh and later Petrograd.
- He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks) and was imprisoned twice for revolutionary activities.
- He contracted tuberculosis and, unwilling to become a burden, committed suicide at age 21.
- In the Lithuanian SSR, Janonis was hailed as the "first poet of the proletariat".
