Vytautas Mačernis

Vytautas Mačernis was born on 5 June 1921 in Šarnelė, on a farm in Samogitia. He studied English in Kaunas, then in Vilnius, where he switched to philosophy, until the German occupier closed the university in 1943. Back in the village, he wrote and entrusted his poems to friends: they circulated in manuscript among educated young people. He was preparing to leave for the West before the Soviet advance when he died, on 7 October 1944, near Žemaičių Kalvarija, aged twenty-three. None of his books appeared in his lifetime.

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• PoetryVizijosVytautas Mačernis · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature