Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas

Alfonsas Čipkus, who wrote under the name Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, was born on 15 July 1919 in Nemeikščiai, near Utena. A graduate of the University of Vilnius in 1942, he left for Germany in 1944, studied at Tübingen and Freiburg and taught in a Lithuanian gymnasium. Settled in the United States in 1949, he worked at the Library of Congress until 1984. A translator of Hamlet, the Georgics and Baudelaire, he also kept a diary from 1938 to 2012, published in four volumes. Winner of the national prize in 1997, he died in Baltimore on 20 January 2015.

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• PoetryOrfėjaus medisAlfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature