Author, Poet, Political Activist. His most notable work was written in 1945, “Baltaragio malunas” or in English “Batlargis’ Windmill"; becoming a classic in Lithuanian literature, it was adapted as a play, in 1966 to a ballet, then in 1974 to the movie “Devil’s Bride”. His epic short story has been published in Lithuanian, Russian, Latvian, Estonian, Czech, Icelandic, German, and Polish languages. Because of his political beliefs, he lived a troubled life, spending years in prison dying young at the age of 60. During World War I, he was attending school in Moscow, Russian before returning to Lithuanian to continue school. Before graduation, he became active with a political magazine, "Morning”. As a rebellious teenager, he was expelled from the school for his participation in the working class' May 1st Demonstration, but he was given his final exam outside of the classroom and graduated. From 1924 to 1926, he attended the Lithuanian University studying the Lithuanian language, literature and history. In May 1925, he was arrested for the publication of “Friend of Young”, which was printed with the May 1st Demonstration Slogans. In 1926, he traveled to Austria to attend the University of Vienna and became a faculty member in Philosophy. He continued to study literature, philosophy and history. He took a summer holiday returning to Lithuanian and arrested again for political actions, but he was released under the condition that he would not return to Lithuania. He went to the neighboring country of Lativa joining the Lithuanian Social Democratic emigrants’ activities. In 1928, he published an almanac, “The Storm”; it created a storm as he was expelled from Lavita. From 1928 to 1930, he was in Vienna continuing his studies in literature and philosophy. He also continued with the Lithuanian Social Democratic group and wrote the “Third front”. He went to Berlin, Germany where he was allowed to print 37 editions of the newspaper “Fight” along with colleague Vytautas Kauneckas. In 1931, he returned to his homeland of Lithuanian, where he wrote the almanac “Work” in 1932. For “illegal political activities” on March 28, 1933, he was found guilty and sentenced for four years of hard labor in the Kaunas and Marijampole prisons. He was released in 1935 with the efforts of Lithuanian Writer’s Society, which he became an active member. Continuing with his writings, he collaborated with newspaper, the “Lithuanian Knowledge” and the magazine “Culture” and in 1940 the editor of the magazine “Meridian”. Since he was married and with a family, he decided to settle and make a home. On July 21, 1940, he met with the pro-Soviet Congress and was given credit for the criticizing phrase “brought to Lithuanian, the Stalin Sun”. During World War II, he lived in the Capital City of Vilnius and was the head of the Academy of Sciences Literature Museum and the Lithuanian Institute of Literature guarding the manuscript of Adam Mickiewicz, rescuing Jews from the Nazis forces and remaining critical of the Soviet system which demanded respect. On March 17, 1946, he was arrested in the apartment of noted poet and political activist, Anne Lukauskaites-Poskienes, and on December 20th, according to the RSFSR Criminal Cod Article 58-12, sentenced to five years in prison since he knew about a letter sent to the Roman Catholic Pope concerning the treatment of people in Lithuanian; he was eventually sent to Siberia for three years. His friend Kauneckas was at the same camp and their memories of the camp were recorded. Upon release, he was a broken man, confessing publicly the error in his political thinking. At this point in his life, he devoted himself to translating literature into languages that other countrymen could easily read; he was not allowed to be given credit for this work. He was not allowed to publish any of his poems not even under a pen name. In 1965, he was given the Lithuanian SSR Meritorious Cultural Worker Award. Starting in 1923, fifteen collections of his poems were published; besides his collections of poetry and the political writings, he published documentary story "Trip to the North”, his memories of Siberia prison camp; folk symbolization book "The Sky is Falling"; and in 1938 “Wooden Wonders”. Memorials to him: Marijampolė Liudvinavas Kazys Boruta High School was dedicated in honor; also, a street was named after him in the Capital City of Vilnius; a postage stamp was issued in 2005 with the art work by Aušrelė Ratkevičienė; and in 1970 a monument by sculptor, Vlad Vidziunas was erected at his grave with lines from his poem “Free wind will opacities, green pinewood-receive”.