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Henrikas Radauskas

Died in 1970

Henrikas Radauskas was born on 23 April 1910 in Kraków, spent the war in Russia with his parents and did not see Lithuania until 1921. After studying Lithuanian, German and Russian in Kaunas, he was a radio announcer in Klaipėda, then an editor in publishing. Having left for the West in 1944, he reached the United States in 1949, where he first lived by manual labour, then worked at the Library of Congress from 1959 to the end of the 1960s. A translator of Goethe, Heine and Pasternak, he died in Washington on 27 August 1970.

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