Hello.

On thursday I am having a Lithuanian speaking exam for school. We get a list of topics to choose from and we must get ready to speak about the topic for ~7 minutes. My topic is: "There are Lithuanians, whose woks are important for worlds culture history. Present three authors from diffirent fields of culture and reveal the importance of their works". My choices were M. K. Ciurlionis, B. Sruoga, J. Mekas.

M. K. Ciurlionis is an important artist and a musician with a very unique art style. His works were shown worldwide long after his death. And they traveled around the world even to Japan, Tokyo (based on geographic location of Lithuania, the closest way to get to Japan would be to dig down, so it is completely other side of the globe). Also his works were showcased in France, Germany, Italy.

The second one would be B. Sruoga, whose book "The Forest of The Gods" was translated into: Russian, Polish, French, Latvian, Estonian and English. A very satyric collection of memoirs from the time when he was imprisioned in a Concentration Camp by SS (Nazis). It is a very unique way of writing about such a terrible experience, because he, in his memoirs is always laughing at humanity and life, being a prisoner bitter jokes and satyric point of view could have been the only thing that kept him from getting mad or inhumane.

The third one would be J. Mekas. He is called the godfather of Cinema Avant-garde in America. As you might have guessd he's a director. He together with some other people established Anthology Film Archives in New York, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. Thus a lot of underground movies were saved because of this. Because at that time youtube did not exist and without such archive the cinema underground art tapes would be simply lost.

I am Interested whether you know about these people (mostly I believe J. Mekas will be known) and what have you heard of them. Also what authors would you choose if it would be about your countrys artistic world influence? This goes mostly for the people who live in smaller less noticable countrys. And also do you believe that my choices were right and these people are influentual. Could you sort them from most influentual to the least influentual (there are wikipedian links at the introduction part)?

Thank you for your time do not forget to leave a review and here is a picture of Jonas Mekas: