Alfonsas Bieliauskas - prose writer, literary critic.
Born on 05.10.1923 in Naujuosiai Neveronyse, Kaunas district. Died 22 01 2018 in Vilnius.
In 1937-1941 he studied at Kaunas 3rd State Gymnasium (now Kaunas Gediminas Sports and Health Secondary School). In 1941 he left for the interior of Russia and worked as a labourer in Siberian logging sites. From 1942 he served in the 16th Lithuanian division, attended party-communist courses in Yaroslavl, worked in the Central Committee of the Lithuanian-Lithuanian Communist Party of the Soviet Union (LCJS), collaborated in the Lithuanian broadcasts of the Moscow radio and the press. In 1944-1946 he was the head of the Kaunas city Komsomol organisation. In 1946-1949 he studied Lithuanian literature at Kaunas University (now Vytautas Magnus University). Since 1949 lived in Vilnius. After graduating from Vilnius University in 1951 with a degree in Lithuanian studies, he worked for two decades (1951-1970) at the Švyturias magazine, first as deputy editor-in-chief and then as editor-in-chief from 1954.1959-1960 Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Lithuanian Writers' Union, 1970-1976 chairman of the Board. 1971-1976 Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania, 1971-1980 Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. His first short story appeared in the press in 1940, his first book of short stories in 1949.