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 Antanas Venclova (1906 – 1971), born in a peasant family in the village of Trempiniai, Antanas Venclova went to secondary school in Marijampolė and in 1922 graduated from the arts department of Kaunas University. In 1930-1931 he edited the journal Trečias Frontas (Third Front). From 1954 to 1959 he was chairman of the board of the official Union of Lithuanian Writers. His work was first published in 1924. Apart from writing poetry, Venclova is also known as novelist, publicist, translator of Pushkin, and literary critic. He won renown as a masterly author of realistic tales and novels.
See: http://www.efn.org/~valdas/venclova.html
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