Antanas Vaičiulaitis

Antanas Augustinas Vaičiulaitis (June 23, 1906 – July 22, 1992) was a Lithuanian fiction writer of the 20th century, and also known for his literary criticism and translations.

Antanas Vaičiulaitis was born on June 23, 1906, in Didieji Šelviai, near Vilkaviškis, in the Suvalkija region, then part of Congress Poland.

[2] Returning to Kaunas, from 1938 to 1940, he worked at the news service ELTA and taught new Lithuanian literature in the Theology and Philosophy Department at Vytautas Magnus University.

In 1940, Vaičiulaitis was appointed to diplomatic service at the Lithuanian Embassy in Rome, and he then emigrated to the United States.

[1][2] In 1951, Vaičiulaitis began work for the United States Information Agency (USIA), for the Lithuanian service of the Voice of America, from which he retired in 1976.