Born on 20 December 1938 in Kubileliai, Šakiai district.
In 1962 graduated in Russian Philology from Vilnius University. Worked in the Press Committee and in the editorial office of the magazine "Our Language". He learned Hungarian on his own and did a traineeship at the University of Debrecen. Since 1990 she has been working as a translator. Honorary member of the Hungarian Writers' Union.