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Mykolas Sauka is a sculptor and writer. Working primarily in concrete as well as wood — a material he connects to Lithuanian baroque tradition, folk sanctity, and the contemporary body. His large-scale figurative works probe ideals of beauty, identity, and bodily discomfort, and have been presented in public commissions and exhibitions across Lithuania and abroad. In 2024 his solo exhibition Children’s Room opened at Galerie Olivier Waltman in Paris as part of the Lithuanian Season in France. He was awarded Lithuanian Government Young Creator Award in 2022. As a writer, he won the First Book competition of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union in 2014 with the short story collection Grubiai (Roughly), later awarded the Kazimieras Barėnas Prize for the best prose debut under 35. His second book, the novel Kambarys (The

Room, 2024) — a portrait of loneliness and absurdity in the dating lives of young generations — was listed among the Twelve Most Creative Books of the Year by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and among the 5 Best Prose Books of the Year.