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Aistis Jonas
(1904 — 1973)

Jonas Aistis was born in central Lithuania. He studied Lithuanian literature at the University of Kaunas and received a grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education to study French literature at the University of Grenoble in France from 1936 to 1940. His doctoral dissertation examined the linguistic structure of Gospel translations into ancient Provancal. From 1944 to 1946 he worked in the Nice, France, archives and in the Paris National Library. He came to the United States in 1946, served for a number of years as chairman of the Lithuanian Writers' League and worked at the Library of Congress until his death in 1973. Aistis published ten books of poetry. He also wrote literary criticism and edited several anthologies of poetry.

Lithuania, 2004, Jonas Aistis