VLADAS BRAZIŪNAS (born February 17, 1952) is a Lithuanian poet, essayist and translator of French, Latvian, Byelorussian, Croatian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian poetry; a member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union, the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators, and the Lithuanian PEN center. He is a founder and leader of Magnus Ducatus Poesis, the Society of Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Polish, Latvian, Russian poets and other artists, and one of the creators of the Movement of the French speaking poets of the Central Europe, Cap à l’Est.