Dalia Staponkutė (born 1964) is a Lithuanian writer, philosopher, and translator of Greek and English literature. She lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Staponkutė graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia, with a degree in philosophy in 1987. She taught at universities in Lithuania, but after moving to Cyprus, she worked primarily as a translator and writer. She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Cyprus. Staponkutė has written essays on translation theories, emigration, and bilingualism and participated in many international conferences, including Pakistan, Türkiye, and Egypt. She is the translator of Nikos Kazantzakis’s books from Greek into Lithuanian.
Dalia Staponkutė published the essay collection Rain versus Sun in 2007, which was nominated for Book of the Year in Lithuania, and an academic book on the Lithuanian-born American philosopher Alphonso Lingis in 2014.
In 2015, her autobiographical novel Jenseits vom Entweder-Oder was published in German. It was published in Lithuania in 2014 under the title The Third Country. For this novel, she was awarded the Lithuanian Literary Critics’ Prize in 2015 and the Audience Award Book of the Year in 2016.
