Born on 18.10.1917 in the village of Lašu, Kriaunai municipality, Rokiškis district.
Died 01 05 2003. Buried in Rumšiškės cemetery.
1933-1936 studied at the Jesuit gymnasium in Kaunas. In 1939 he was called up for military service in the Lithuanian army. After the Soviet occupation he continued to serve in the army, and was released into the reserve just before the Second World War. From 1941 he served in the Fifth Self-Defence Battalion and was soon sent to the Eastern Front. He completed his military service in 1945 in Kursk. After the German surrender, he was captured by the USSR and later escaped. He took part in the resistance struggle for some time, then became legal. In 1946-1950 he studied Lithuanian studies at Vilnius Pedagogical University. 1950-1951 he was a teacher in Širvinty, 1951-1971 in Biržai. In 1971 he was accused of anti-Soviet propaganda for his novel "The Year of Troubles" (the first title of which was "Žaizdre"), arrested and imprisoned in the Pravieniškės Correctional Labour Colony, and later worked in forced construction in Kaunas. In 1973 he returned to Biržai, and worked there as a freighter until 1975. From 1975 he lived in Rumšiškės, worked at the Kaunas House Building Combine and a sewing factory.