Born in 1937, Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian scholar, poet, author and translator of literature. He was educated at Vilnius University and later at Tartu University. As an active participant in the dissident movement he was deprived of Soviet citizenship in 1977 and had to emigrate. Between 1977 and 1980 he lectured at University of California, Berkeley, where he became friends with the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, who was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the school, as well as the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky. He is currently a full professor at Yale University.

Title: My father, Antanas Venclova

Listeners: Andrzej Wolski

Tags: Klaipėda, Klaipėda Lithuanian Gymnasium, Antanas Venclova

Duration: 40 seconds

Date story recorded: May/June 2011

Date story went live: 20 March 2012