poet, critic, literary and art publicist. Studied at Kėdainiai gymnasium. In 1940 he entered Kaunas University to study architecture. After the outbreak of the war, he continued his studies at the revived Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, studying Lithuanian studies, German studies and art history. In 1944 he left for the West. In 1945-1949 he studied at the Universities of Innsbruck and Freiburg, graduating with a doctorate in philology. In 1949 Nagys moved to Montreal. He worked in factories, taught at the university, taught higher courses in Lithuanian studies, and taught at a secondary school. From 1952 to 1959 he worked in the editorial office of "Literatūros lankas" and was editor of the weekly "Nepriklausoma Lietuva". His first poems were published in 1937 in the student magazines "Mokslo dienos" and "Ateitis". In 1946, he published his first book "Eilėraščiai" (Poems) in Innsbruck, which was expanded and included in the second collection "November Nights" (1947). The early poetry is characterised by expressionistic, painterly imagery, vivid colours (graphic contrasts of black and white, blood red), jerky phrasing, pauses, emotionally accentuated metaphors. The influence of the German Expressionists and existential philosophy is felt. In his poetic posture and elegiac mood, Nagys is close to the early work of Alphonse Nyka-Niliunas and Vytautas Mačernis. Later, the emotional tension of his poetry eases, the voice of the poem's subject is less categorical, and the concepts of history, space and time acquire the load of human existential experience. In 1991, the poet was awarded the Jotvingiai Prize. In 1998, the Buknaičiai Primary School was named after him.
