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Boruta Kazys
(1905—1965)

Kazys Boruta, poet, novelist, and literary editor, was born into a peasant family in the village of Kulokai near the city of Marijampolė. He studied at a teachers' training school in Marijampolė and from 1926 to 1930 he studied literature at the universities of Kaunas and Vienna, Austria. His verse was first published in 1921 and was notably influenced by German Expressionism and the poetry of Russian poet Sergei Yesenin. In Boruta's poems the lyricism of contrasting moods and a romantic intensity of passion are combined with a roughness of imaginery and dynamic rhythm. He also translated many of the works of Schiller, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Tolstoy into Lithuanian. Boruta was imprisoned several times for his political activities.

Lithuania, 2005, Kazys Boruta