Born on 11 July 1938 in Kaunas.
In 1964 graduated from Vilnius University with a master's degree in French language and comparative literature. Later he worked at Vaga Publishing House as an editor, literary translator and head of the Publishing Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Since 1993, he has lived in Toronto, Canada, where he taught French for some time. Currently a freelance translator. Since 1995 member of the Canadian Association of Literary Translators. Translator from English, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Portuguese. First translation publication appeared in 1967. He compiled the first Italian-Lithuanian and Spanish-Lithuanian dictionary in Lithuania, as well as smaller Lithuanian-Spanish and Spanish-Lithuanian dictionaries, a Lithuanian-French school dictionary, and Spanish-Lithuanian and Lithuanian-Spanish phrasebooks.