Born on 30 May 1933 in Kuturi, Jurbarkas district. Died 30 06 2019.
In 1958 graduated in Lithuanian language and literature from Vilnius University. Worked as a teacher, 1958-1962 in the editorial office of "Literatūros ir meno". Among the foreign poets he translated are A. Akhmatova, F. G. Lorka, J. V. Goethe, N. Gumiliov, H. Heine, F. Helderlin, S. Yesenin, O. Mandelstam, K. K. Norvid, R. M. Rilke, G. Traklis, ancient Japanese poets. His poems have been translated into English, Belarusian, Spanish, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, German.