Born on 08 January 1944 in Medenijus, Utena district.
In 1961 he entered Vilnius University, where he studied Lithuanian language and literature. Later he switched to English Philology. In 1978 he graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical University with a degree in English. All the time (except for a couple of years at the editorial office of the Trakai Spartuolis newspaper) he was engaged in pedagogical work: he was a teacher at the secondary schools of Žagarė (Joniškis district) and Tauragnai (Utena district), at the agricultural technical school in Alanta (Molėtai district), from 1978 at the Biržai Atžalynas Secondary School, and since 2002 at the Biržai Saulės Grammar School. Currently no longer working. During his studies he translated several short stories by English and American writers, and his first translated book was J. Salinger's novel "Rugiuose prie abugnės" (1966).