Kazys Almenas

Kazys Almenas was a Lithuanian physicist, writer, essayist, and publisher.

Biography

Kazys Almenas was born in Gruzdžiai, Šiauliai County, Lithuania. He attended the University of Nebraska and Northwestern University. Between 1965 and 1967, he studied at the University of Warsaw and received a doctorate in physics. Almenas was teaching at the University of Maryland.
Almenas used to live in Lithuania and often published his essays in the Lithuanian press. Kazys Almenas is the founder of Fund Supporting Royal Palace - a fund which helps financing a replica of a medieval Lithuanian Royal Palace in Vilnius.

Literary works

Almenas wrote the novels Upė į Rytus, upė į Šiaurę, Šienapjūtė, Sauja skatikų, and Lietingos dienos Palangoje and the collections of short stories Bėgiai and Gyvenimas tai kekė vyšnių, Vaivos juosta.