Born on 18.10.1945 in Lauckaimy, Vilkaviskis district.
In 1964 he graduated from Vilkaviškis Salomėjos Nėries Secondary School, in 1966 from Kaunas Technical School, in 1973 from Moscow Higher Extramural Foreign Languages Course (Spanish and French). In 1966-1967 he worked as a radio mechanic in Tauragė, in 1968-1982 as an electrician and chief technician in Kaunas, in 1984-1999 in the trade union of translators of fiction. From 1998 to 2010 he taught Spanish at Vytautas Magnus University. He translates fiction classics and contemporary works from Spanish.