Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazelnut Owl) was the collective pen name of two sisters, Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė (1867-1926) and Marija Ivanauskaitė-Lastauskienė (1872-1957). Born into a family of Polish-speaking nobility in the village of Paragiai in northeast Lithuania, their stories, often full of political observation, were written in Polish by Marija and then translated into Lithuanian by her sibling. The Egyptian style sculpture made in their likeness and unveiled in 1995 is officially known as Seserys (Sisters) and is the work of the sculptor Dalia Matulaitė and the architects Rimantas Buivydas and Juras Pankevičius.
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