Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas

Vincas Mykolaitis, known as Putinas, was born on 6 January 1893 in Pilotiškės, in Suvalkija. He entered the Seinai seminary in 1909 and was ordained priest in 1915; he studied at the ecclesiastical academy of Saint Petersburg, defended a philosophy thesis in Fribourg in 1922, then taught literature at the University of Kaunas. He renounced the priesthood in 1935. Afterwards a professor at the University of Vilnius and a member of the Academy of Sciences, he wrote in his last years poems against war and the crimes of totalitarianism, and died in Kačerginė on 7 June 1967.

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• NovelAltorių šešėlyVincas Mykolaitis-Putinas · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature