Author · Lithuania
Kazys Binkis
Died in 1942
Kazys Binkis was born on 16 November 1893 in Gudeliai, in the Panevėžys region. Trained as a schoolteacher in Vilnius, he taught, then volunteered in the Iron Wolf regiment. From 1920 to 1923, he studied literature and philosophy in Berlin. A leading figure of Lithuanian futurism, he then lived by journalism and wrote humorous verse, poems for children and plays. With his wife Sofija, he hid Jews under the German occupation; he died in Kaunas on 27 April 1942.
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- Poetry100 pavasariųKazys Binkis · 1923not translated into EnglishLiterature