Balys Sruoga

Balys Sruoga was born on 2 February 1896 in Baibokai, near Panevėžys. He studied literature in Petrograd and Moscow, then in Munich, where he obtained his doctorate in 1924. A poet, playwright, critic and translator, he taught at the University of Kaunas, where he became a professor in 1932, then in Vilnius, and led theatre seminars. Arrested by the Nazis in March 1943 with other Lithuanian intellectuals, he was deported to the Stutthof camp and returned to Lithuania only in 1945. He died in Vilnius on 16 October 1947.

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