Born on 13.06.1935 in Noreikiškės (near Kaunas), died on 04.03.2002 in Paris.
In 1944 he left Lithuania with his parents, in Germany he graduated from a French gymnasium. He studied at the Sorbonne and Columbia (New York) universities. From 1959 he lived in Paris. He worked for the daily newspaper "L Express", and for about 20 years edited books by South American and Eastern European writers for the Gallimard publishing house. He published critical articles in Le Figaro, Le Monde, radio programmes on foreign literatures and television documentaries. Since 1993 she has been Lithuania's Permanent Representative to UNESCO.
In 1991, she published the novel Demain, il ny aura plus de trains, the authorised translation of which was published in 1997 (translated by Laima Rapšytė).
Translated into French. He translated Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's novel The Snake's Gaze (1991), Marcelijus Martinaitis's poetry collection Passerelle de nuages (Clouds in the sky, Vénissieux, 1997), Richard Gavelas's, Bite Vilimaitė's, Jurgė Ivanauskaitė's novels, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Maironis, Balys Sruoga, Salomėja Nėries, Vince Mykolaitis-Putinas, Jonas Aytis, Eduards Mieželaitis, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Sigitas Geda, Antanas A. He has published reviews of Lithuanian culture and history in various publications.