Henrikas Radauskas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henrikas Radauskas

Lithuanian poet and writer

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1910

Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Henrikas Radauskas (born in 1910 in Kraków, Poland, died in 1970 in Washington, D.C.) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. Radauskas spent his childhood in Panevežys; subsequently his family relocated to Novonikolayevsk, currently Novosibirsk, where he started attending school.
After Lithuania reestablished its independence following the First World War, his family returned to Lithuania.
There he studied Lithuanian, German and Russian literatures at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.
In 1936 he became an editor for the Lithuanian Commission of Book Publishing.
Radauskas emigrated to the United States in 1949.
During his last years he worked for the Library of Congress. He wrote four poem suites: "Fontanas" ("Fountain") "Strele danguje" ("Arrow in the sky") "Žiemos daina" ("Winter song") "Eilerašciai" ("Poems") "Pasaka" ("Fairytale")