Lithuania 2014 Kristijonas Donelaitis, Poet
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 4th January 2014
- one value
- Design: Mindaugas Gribauskas
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 30½mm x width 35½ mm
- perforations: 12.9 x 13.2
Kristijonas Donelaitis, 1714-1780, writer, poet
1.55Lt ~ portrait, manuscript with quill and ink-pot, open book
Notes: considered to be the father of Lithuanian literature. He wrote the first Lithuanian language poem “Metai” (The Seasons) which has been translated in more than 20 languages and set to music
