Born on 29.08.1924 in Laukų II village of Vištytis (Vilkaviskis district). Died on 03.01.2006 in Vilnius.
In 1938 he started to publish his first poems. In 1968 he graduated in journalism from Vilnius University. In 1941-49 he worked as an actor at the Kaunas Young Spectator's (later Youth) Theatre. From 1950 he worked as a literary worker for the weekly "Literatūra ir menas", the newspapers "Sportas", "Vakarinės naujienos", "Tėvynės balsas". In 1967-92 he was a regular correspondent of "Literaturnaya gazieta" in Lithuania.