Born on 02.10.1952 in Mašnyčios, Varėna district. Died 11 05 2017 in Vilnius.
Studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University in 1970-1972, and Polish language and literature at Jagiellonian University in Krakow in 1972-1977. Since 1977 he has been working at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, where he has held various positions, for some time he was the head of the institute, and currently he is the chief researcher at the Department of Contemporary Literature. From 1982 to 1984 he taught at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education), and from 1991 to 1993 at the University of Warsaw. Since 1984 he has been teaching at Vilnius University. From 1993 to 2007 he was Head of the Department of Polish Philology at Vilnius University, since 1999 Professor. Member of the Board of Editors of the series "Treasury of Lithuanian Literature". He has written works on literary theory, the history of Lithuanian and Polish literature, and comparativism. Translated Polish prose and poetry, compiled collections of Polish prose and poetry. Author of articles in the Lithuanian Encyclopaedia.