Vanda Juknaitė-Baltrūnienė – prose writer, playwright, essayist.
She was born 28 November, 1949 in Papiliai, Rokiškis district.
In 1972 she finished studies of the Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. After her studies, she worked as a teacher and gave lectures at Klaipėda Conservatoire. Since 1975 she gives lectures at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute. She has a degree of a professor. She cooperates with cultural press. Her prose has been translated into English, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Hebrew and German languages.
A member of Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1990.

B i b l i o g r a p h y :
Ugniaspalvė lapė: novella and short stories. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1983.
Šermenys: novel. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1990.
Stiklo šalis: novella. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 1995.
Šermenys: novel; Stiklo šalis: novella; Formulė: play. – Vilnius: Alma littera, 2000, 2001.
Išsiduosi. Balsu: essays, dialogues. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2002, 2015.
Romualdo Granausko prozos modernumas: methodical edition. – Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas, 2003.
Saulėlydžio senis: interpretation of Romualdas Granauskas works (together with E. N. Bukelienė). – Vilnius: Alma littera, 2004.
Tariamas iš tamsos: dialogues with children. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2007, 2012.
Stiklo šalis: novella; Šermenys: novel. – Vilnius: Alma littera, 2009, 2012.
Rašytojas ir literatūros studijos = The writer in studies of literature: review: the humanities, philology. – Vilnius: Vilniaus pedagoginio universiteto leidykla, 2010.
Ponios Alisos gimtadienis: two plays. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2010.

A w a r d s :
1993 Juozas Paukštelis award for novel “Šermenys”.
1994 Žemaitė literary award for novel “Šermenys”.
2001 Juozas Grušas award for play “Formulė”.
2002 Book “Išsiduosi. Balsu” was included into the list of twelve most creative books of the year.
2003 Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė literary award for the book “Išsiduosi. Balsu”.
2004 Art Award of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
2008 Juozas Keliuotis literary award.
2008 National Culture and Art Prize.