Kazys Almenas

Kazys Almenas (11 April 1935 – 7 October 2017) was a Lithuanian physicist, writer, essayist, and publisher. He was born in Gruzdžiai, Šiauliai County, Lithuania. Almenas wrote the novels "Upė į Rytus, upė į Šiaurę" (1964), "Šienapjūtė" (1970), "Sauja skatikų" (1977), and "Lietingos dienos Palangoje" (1988) and the collections of short stories "Bėgiai" (1965) and "Gyvenimas tai kekė vyšnių" (1967), "Vaivos juosta" (2014).
Almenas studied at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern University.
Almenas died on 7 October 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania at the age of 82.