Henrikas Radauskas
Henrikas Radauskas (23 April 1910 – 27 August 1970) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. Described as an "art alcoholic" by the contemporary Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, Radauskas's works are marked by aestheticism, anti-lyricism, aesthetic distance, and poetic transformation of reality. He is described as "one of the most accomplished Baltic poets of the post-World War II years, and perhaps the greatest Lithuanian poet of the twentieth century".
Henrikas Radauskas

Public domain
- Name
- Henrikas Radauskas
- Born
- 23 April 1910
- Birthplace
- Kraków, Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 27 August 1970
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Occupation
- Poet, writer
- Spouse
- Vera Sotnikovaitė
- Education
- Vytautas Magnus University
- Nationality
- Lithuania
- Languages
- Lithuanian
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Henrikas Radauskas (23 April 1910 – 27 August 1970) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. Described as an "art alcoholic" by the contemporary Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, Radauskas's works are marked by aestheticism, anti-lyricism, aesthetic distance, and poetic transformation of reality. He is described as "one of the most accomplished Baltic poets of the post-World War II years, and perhaps the greatest Lithuanian poet of the twentieth century".
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
Henrikas Radauskas (1910–1970) was a Lithuanian poet and writer. The poet was born in Kraków. Henrikas Radauskas studied at Panevėžys professor seminary and Vytautas Magnus University. Languages used include Lithuanian.
Composed from admitted, traceable facts · 26 September 2026
VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Henrikas Radauskas. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q5617250 · wikipedia · Henrikas Radauskas
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Henrikas Radauskas • Born — 23 April 1910 • Birthplace — Kraków, Austria-Hungary • Died — 27 August 1970 • Place of death — Washington, D.C., United States • Occupation — Poet, writer • Spouse — Vera Sotnikovaitė • Education — Vytautas Magnus University
Biography
Biography
Radauskas was born on 23 April 1910 in Kraków, then part of Austria-Hungary. Radauskas's mother Amalija Kieragga was a Protestant from East Prussia. Radauskas spent his childhood in Panevėžys. However, the First World War forced his family to relocate to Novonikolayevsk, currently Novosibirsk, where he started attending school. His family returned to newly independent Lithuania in 1921. He studied at a teacher's seminary in Panevėžys, from which he graduated in 1929. Radauskas could speak the German, French, Russian, and Polish languages. Later, Radauskas studied Lithuanian, German and Russian literatures at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. Although a reserved person, Radauskas nonetheless attended Balys Sruoga's theater seminar, where he met his future wife Vera Sotnikovaitė. Despite graduating with exceptional grades, Radauskas did not write a thesis. From 1934 to 1936 Radauskas worked in the university's library. By the suggestion of a friend, Radauskas became a radio announcer and hosted shows in Lithuanian and German in Klaipėda. From 1937 to 1941 he was an editor for the Lithuanian Commission of Book Publishing. Radauskas and his wife moved to Germany in 1944 and temporarily resided with his relative in Berlin. At the end of the Second World War, Radauskas moved again to Reutlingen, where he worked as a French translator. Radauskas emigrated to the United States in 1949. At first, Radauskas worked in factories. However, he soon got a job at the Library of Congress, becoming its official employee in 1959. In 1970, Radauskas was fired from his position due to staff reduction. That same year, on 27 August 1970, while working as an interpreter at a conference, Radauskas unexpectedly died.
Poetry in Translation
Poetry in Translation
• Chimeras in the Tower [in English]. Selected Poems. Trans. by Jonas Zdanys. Wesleyan University Press, 1986. • Ognem po nebesam = Ugnim ant debesų [in Russian]. Poems and biographical materials. Ed. and trans. by Anna Georgievna Gerasimova. Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University, 2016.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Kraków.
Birth place
Washington and D.C.
Death place
Collections of poems
• Fontanas ("Fountain", 1935) • Strėlė danguje ("Arrow in the sky", 1950) • Žiemos daina ("Winter song", 1955) • Žaibai ir vėjai ("Poems", 1965) • Eilėraščiai 1965-1970: pomirtinė poezijos knyga ("Poems 1965-1970," V. Saulius, Chicago, 1978)
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Žvirgždas, Manfredas. Radauskas. saltiniai.info.
- 2.ZDANYS, JONAS. THE APPLIED AESTHETICISM OF HENRIKAS RADAUSKAS. lituanus.org.
- 3.Paplauskienė-Babonaitė, Virginija. Henrikui Radauskui – 110: bičiuliai jį vadino "meno alkoholiku" ir "poetu iš Dievo malonės". lrt.lt.
- 4.Satkauskytė, Dalia. Henrikas Radauskas. vle.lt.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedreference work
Partially resolved
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 21 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
38,991 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Henrik SteffensAuthor
- Henrik VisnapuuAuthor
- Henrik WergelandAuthor
- Henrik, Prince Consort of DenmarkAuthor
- Henrique AbranchesAuthor
- Henriqueta LisboaAuthor
- Henry (VII) of GermanyAuthor
- Henry A. WallaceAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Henrikas Radauskas?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.