Born 19 10 1939 in Kaunas.
Mother - Sofija Serbentaitė Bučienė ( 1900-1964), descended on her mother's side from the old family of the Rajunecas landlords of Upytė. Father Anicetas Bučys ( 1904-1998), from a large family of Petras Bučys, an old-established builder of wind and water mills in Žemaitija, published his poetry in pre-war periodicals, and after leaving Lithuania at the end of the war, he lived in Great Britain and published two books in the Lithuanian publishing house Nida in London - the play Pirmieji smūgiai (First blows). The First Year of the Bolshevik Occupation in Lithuania" (1972) and "Poems" (1979). He returned to independent Lithuania before his death.
In 1962, he graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in Lithuanian language and literature, and worked as a teacher at the Bartkuškis eight-year school. In 1964, he was sent by the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR to do a post-graduate course in the theory sector of the Institute of World Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR - in 1968 he defended his dissertation "The Problem of the Modern Novel in Lithuanian Literature", receiving a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree. In 1994, the dissertation was nostrified by the Lithuanian Science Council with the degree of Doctor of Humanities. After his postgraduate studies, he resigned from the academic service at the Institute of Lithuanian Language and Literature, opting for the status of a freelance writer. In his later years, he served (with interruptions) in the literary press as a reviewer for the weekly "Literature and Art", head of the criticism department of the magazines "Pergalė" and "Litva literaturnaja", culture and literature reviewer for the daily "Respublika" (1998-99), editor-in-chief of the weekly "Gimtasis kraštas" (1993-94), etc.