Born 1935.06.02.02 in Musninkiai, Širvintos district. Died 17.10.2008
After graduating from Gelvoni Secondary School, I entered Vilnius Culture and Education Technical College, and after acquiring the specialty of a drama group manager, I was appointed to the position of the manager of the Šakiai District Culture House. From 1956 to 1959 I served in the then Soviet Army. From 1960 to 1972 I worked as the director of the Širvintai District House of Culture, deputy director of the Vilnius I Technical School, inspector at the Press Committee, senior inspector at the Insurance Board of the Ministry of Finance and director of the Culture House of Naujoji Vilnia. From 1972 to 1991, he was Director of the Fiction Propaganda Bureau of the Writers' Union. I started publishing in the republican press in 1960 - in "Komjaunimo Tiesa", "Jaunimo gretose", "Literatura ir mene", "Šluota", "Poezijos pavasario" almanacs, etc. In the scarcity of dramatic works, I wrote plays, comedies, agitational brigade scripts for drama collectives, and took part in competitions. In 1969, while working as the director of the N. Vilnia Palace of Culture, I was accused of nationalism for the abolition of the Russian, Polish and Belarusian amateur art groups and accused of nationalism by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania.In 1972, the security service arrested a doctor, Algirdas Statkevičius, with whom I was working in the same room in the Insurance Board. In this case, I was also interrogated by the security service and the prosecutor's office for anti-Soviet activities (a collection of poems on microfilm). During the searches, manuscripts were confiscated and property was seized. Since then, I have been practically unable to publish anywhere. Later, when my guilt was not proven, the case was reclassified as abuse of office as director of the Culture Palace of Naujoji Vilnia. On the instructions of Mr Grishkevičius, I had already been discussed at a meeting of the party members of the Writers' Union, and here, thanks to the efforts of J. Baltušis, J. Požėra, J. Palecký and other writers, I was defended from a total crackdown. Later, I devoted all my organisational abilities to the promotion of Lithuanian writers and their work, not only in the republic, but also outside it. In 1991, when I was unemployed, I wrote a multi-act comedy "Paskutinis iš varlynės" (The Last of the Ladybird), took part in a competition announced by Lithuanian-Canadians and won the first prize, with which I bought a homestead in the district of Zarasai, where I still live.