Born on 19 March 1915 in the village of Pašlynis (Raseiniai district). Died 30 01 2008.
Graduated from Raseiniai Gymnasium, 1933-37 studied Latin language, Lithuanian literature and pedagogy at VMU.
Worked in the editorial office of Naujoji Romuva. He was a teacher at Raseiniai Jewish, Alytus, Kaunas and Laukuva gymnasiums. Imprisoned in Vorkuta. Returned to Lithuania in 1957. In Švenčionėliai he worked in melioration, boarding school, 1960-75 he taught in schools in Jonava and Širvintai. 1967 part-time degree in Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. Since 1976 lived in Kantrimiškis (Širvintos r.), since 1998 in Vilnius.
Active public figure. 1993-98 Chairman of the LKDP Širvintos Branch, 1998-2000 Chairman of the LKDP Mandates and Ethics Commission, 1995-98 Chairman of the Širvintos Branch of the Bočiai Union, 1991-98 member of the Širvintos Exiles Choir. Since 1926 he has been a member of the Federation of Atheists' Union of Old Friends, since 1991 - a member of the Lithuanian Journalists' Society, since 1998 - a member of the Lithuanian Retired Officers' Union, since 1999 - a member of the Lithuanian Writers' Union.
Since 1999 - Member of the Lithuanian Parliament.
Autobiography
Already in January 1930, my name was first mentioned in a periodical. Later it was repeated more and more often, but until the 200s it was replaced by various pseudonyms, of which I have invented almost six dozen so far. My various essays were published over four hundred times before 1988, and almost nine hundred more from 1989 to the present day. Lately, I have been signing my name more and more often in print. I have published my essays in more than fifty periodicals not only in Lithuania, but also in Australia, the United States and Canada. One essay was translated into a Polish-language newspaper, another into English. A contributor to the Berlin Culture Weekly talked to me for a few hours, and then the Berlin newspaper published the interview. A German almanac then published a fairly detailed biography of me. In 1995, a Norwegian journalist photographed me in Širvintos at the monument to the exiles, and the photo was published in a Norwegian weekly. In 1995, one of my essays, published in Lithuanian, was translated into Polish without my knowledge by a weekly in Vilnius, which published it in Polish, and printed it on its pages without my knowledge - and, by the way, without leaving my name.