Elena Bukelienė - literary researcher and critic.
Born on 14 August 1934 in Kungiai, Telšiai district. Died 25 December 2006 in Vilnius.
In 1958 graduated from Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, majoring in Lithuanian language and literature. In 1958-1960 she was a teacher at the Ubiškės Secondary School in Telšiai district. 1960-1964 studied at postgraduate school. 1964-1996 worked as an associate professor and professor at the Vilnius University Lithuanian Literature Department.
Elena Nijolė Bukelienė began her creative work in 1964. "Prose Roads and Paths..." (1999), "Prose at the Limit of the Millennium" (2004), "Between the Writer and the Reader" (2006), interpretations of R. Granauskas' work "The Twilight Seneschal" (2004), "The Old Man of the Sun" (2006), together with V. Juknaite).
During her work at Vilnius University, Professor Elena Nijolė Bukelienė paid much attention to the education of young beginning writers, and for decades she was on the jury of the Republican Competition for Young Philologists. In 1989, she compiled a textbook for the 12th grade "Lithuanian Literature: the Middle of the 20th Century". In 1990, he published the textbook "Lithuanian Literature: the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (1956-1988)". In 1997, together with Professor V. Daujotytė, he prepared the second supplemented edition of the textbook "Lithuanian Literature (the Middle and Second Half of the Twentieth Century (1940-1997)". In 2005, Elena Nijolė Bukelienė was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order "For Merits to Lithuania".