Author · Lithuania
Paulius Širvys
Died in 1979
Paulius Širvys was born on 6 September 1920 in Padustėlis, near Zarasai. An orphan, he was placed in a children's home. A pupil at the Vilnius infantry school in 1940 and 1941, he was captured by the Germans, escaped, was sent to forced labour in East Prussia, escaped again and in 1944 joined the Soviet army. A journalist on newspaper and magazine editorial staffs, trained in the advanced courses of the Gorky Institute in Moscow, he sailed from 1967 to 1969 in the Klaipėda fishing fleet. He died in Vilnius in 1979.
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- PoetryBeržų lopšinėPaulius Širvys · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature