Ignas Šeinius

Ignas Jurkūnas, best known by his pen name Ignas Šeinius, was a Lithuanian-Swedish writer, publicist, and diplomat. Šeinius worked as a diplomat for the interwar Lithuania in the Nordic states, to which he immigrated after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. He is best known for his novel Kuprelis, which, along with Šeinius' other novels, was at the forefront of impressionism in the Lithuanian literature.