Born on 11 July 1941 in Kuršėnai, Šiauliai district.
While attending evening school he worked at the Kuršėnai Soviet Farm, Pavenčiai Consumer Cooperative. In 1959 he graduated from the Kuršėnai Labour Youth Secondary School.In 1962-1967 he worked in the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". In 1967 he graduated in journalism from Vilnius University. 1968-1973 worked at the editorial office of "Literatūros ir meno" as the head of the Literary Criticism Department. From 1974 to 1983 he was the editor-in-chief of the Lithuanian Film Studio, the Lithuanian State Committee of Cinematography, a literary consultant to the Lithuanian Writers' Union, and an editorial employee of the magazine Nemunas. 1983-1988 editor-in-chief of the publication "Naujos knygos", 1989-1990 and 1993-1994 editor-in-chief of the magazine "Knygnešys". 1994-1997 Chief of the Literature and Publishing Division of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. In 1991 he founded the publishing house "Žuvėdra", and has been its head and editor ever since. With H. Šablevičius, he wrote the screenplay for the feature film "Our Little Sins" (1979, directed by H. Šablevičius). His scripts were used as the basis for the documentaries "Hands" about E. Mieželaitis and "Diary without dates" about J. Marcinkevičius.