is a writer, essayist and translator. His most notable work is Pietinia kronikas (The Chronicles of the Southern District, 2016), a chronicle of the Šiauliai Southern District, written in Šiauliai dialect and slang. It was selected book of the year in 2017 in the adult category. Agnė Žagrakalytė (b. 1979) is a poet, essayist and literary critic. Her first collection of poems, Išteku (I am getting married), was published in 2003. Her second book Visa tiesa apie Alisą Meler (All the truth about Alisa Meler) was published in 2008 and named one of the ten most creative books in Lithuania in 2008. Gabija Grušaitė (b. 1987) debuted with her first novel Neišsipildymas (Unfulfilled, 2010). Her second novel Stasys Šaltoka (Mr. Colder, 2017) has been published in English as Cold East. National songs and folklore The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas) is publishing collections of Lithuanian national songs - Dainynas. Zenonas Slaviūnas has published 3 volumes of Lithuanian Sutartinės (polyphonic songs) texts. Traditional vocal music is held in high esteem on a world scale: Lithuanian song fests and sutartinės multipart songs are on the UNESCO's representative list of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. It is counted up to 400 000 Lithuanian song texts collected by researchers and folklorists and stored in the Lithuanian Folklore Archive. Memoirs of deportees and partisans After regaining the Independence in 1990, many previously forbidden and unpublished works of literature reached the reader. Multiple volumes of memoirs by Lithuanian deportees and Lithuanian partisans were collected and published. It is being referred to as tremties literatūra (literature of the deportations), tremtinių atsiminimai (memoirs of the deportees), partizanų literatūra (literature of the Lithuanian partisans). The most known Lithuanian partisan writers are Adolfas Ramanauskas (pseudonym Vanagas, 1918–1957), Juozas Lukša (pseudonym Daumantas, 1921–1951), Lionginas Baliukevičius (pseudonym Dzūkas, 1925–1950), poet Bronius Krivickas (1919–1952), poet and literary critic Mamertas Indriliūnas (1920–1945). The book Partizanai (The Partisans) by Juozas Lukša-Daumantas has been issued multiple times in Lithuania and published in the US as Fighters for Freedom. Lithuanian Partisans Versus the U.S.S.R. in 1975, as Forest Brothers: The Account of an Anti-soviet Lithuanian Freedom Fighter, 1944-1948 in 2010, and Sweden as Skogsbröder in 2005. The most famous representatives of the Lithuanian deportee literature are Dalia Grinkevičiūtė (1927–1987), Valentas Ardžiūnas (1933–2007), Leonardas Matuzevičius (1923 – 2000), Petras Zablockas (1914–2008), Kazys Inčiūra (1906–1974), Antanas Miškinis (1905–1983).