Salomėja Nėris [SEP] cause of death
the Soviet Union.
Salomėja was requested to write a poem in honour of Stalin and was subsequently awarded the Stalin Prize (posthumously, in 1947). After that, she wrote more verses on the theme, as encouraged by the USSR Communist Party officials. She spent World War II in the Russian SFSR.
Salomėja Nėris returned to Kaunas but was diagnosed and died of liver cancer in a Moscow hospital in 1945. Her last poems show deep affection for Lithuania itself. She was buried in Kaunas, in a square
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet.
Biography.
Salomėja was born in Kiršai, Suwałki Governorate (current district of Vilkaviškis). She graduated from the University of Lithuania where she studied Lithuanian and German language and literature.
After she was a teacher in Lazdijai, Kaunas, and Panevėžys, her first collection of poems titled "Anksti rytą" (In the Early Morning), was published in 1927