Algimantas Bučys – literary researcher and critic, poet, prose writer, translator.
He was born 19 October, 1939 in Kaunas.
In 1962 he finished studies of the Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University. He worked as a teacher at Bartkuškis 8 year school. In 1964 he was sent to continue studies in the field of World’s Literature theory. In 1968 he got his degree in philology and in 1994 he got his Doctor’s degree. After his studies he chose to be a freelance creator and turned down the offer to work in the Institute of Lithuanian language and literature. He worked in literary press for some time (with breaks) : in “Literatūra ir menas”, “Pergalė”, during years 1993–1994 he worked as an editor in chief of “Gimtasis kraštas” and during 1998-1999 a cultural journalist in “Respublika”. He has published a lot of articles and reviews in Lithuanian and foreign press.
A member of Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1968.

B i b l i o g r a p h y :
Prie skambančių plytų: poetry. – Vilnius: Valstybinė grožinės literatūros leidykla, 1963.
Aukštupiai: poems. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1967.
Romanas ir dabartis: LSSR novel’s evolution till 1970.: problems of the genre. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1973, 1977.
Antiakimirka: poems. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1977.
Eilėraščiai. – London, 1979.
Literatūros atvaizdai: 10 literary portraits – J. Grušas, K. Marukas, Alf. Bieliauskas, M. Sluckis, Vyt. Rimkevičius, A. Pocius, Vyt. Bubnys, Juoz. Aputis, S. Šaltenis, Petras ir Povilas Dirgėlos. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1979.
Tik priešas tavo priešams: novel. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1982; 2004.
Literatūros savimonė: nacionalinis aspektas: monography. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1985.
Šventė be stabo: 100 poems. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1987.
Tremtis: novel. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1987.
Jonas Avyžius: study. – Kaunas: Šviesa, 1990.
Barbarai vice versa klasikai: center and periphery of writer’s strategies: collection of articles. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2008.
Seniausioji lietuvių literatūra. Mindaugo epocha: multi-paradigmal study of cultural conflict in middle ages. – Vilnius: Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2009.
Seniausiosios lietuvių literatūros istorija ir chrestomatija. – Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2012.

B o o k s   i n   f o r e i g n   l a n g u a g e s :
Roman i sovremennost: monography (in Russian.). – Maskva: Sovetskij pisatel, 1977.
Literaturnyje sudby: articles (in Russian.). – Maskva: Sovetskij pisatel, 1982.
Vrag tvojich vragov: novel (in Russian.). – Maskva: Sovetskij pisatel, 1985.
Ienaidnieks tiktai taviem ienaidniekiem: novel (in Latvian.). – Riga: Liesma, 1986.
Tik priešas tavo priešams: novel (in Armenian.). – Jerevanas, 2004 .
История при свете письменности: культурные конфликты средневековья: три литовских эпизода (перевод: Г. Ефремов). – Вильнюс: Графия, 2013.

D r e w   u p :
Fisce haben kein Gedachtnis: collection of Lithuanian short stories (Introduction and comments). – Berlin, 1970.
Literatūros kritika ir dabartis. – Book 1, 1981–1983. – Vilnius: Vaga, 1984.
Bradfordo lietuvių veikla Didžiojoje Britanijoje, 1972–1995: chronicle (together with his father A. Bučys). – 1995.
J. Rudzevičius. Kai laisvė švito: 1914–1918: people’s way of thinking. – Vilnius: Petro ofsetas, 2000.
J. Rudzevičius. Ten gimė, augo dr. Jonas Basanavičius. – Vilnius: Petro ofsetas, 2000.

C o – a u t h o r :
Šiuolaikinės lietuvių literatūros bruožai (together with others). – Vilnius: Vaga, 1969.

T r a n s l a t i o n s :
A. Osecka. Trešnių skonis: musical (from Polish.). – Staged at Jaunimas theater (directed by D. Tamulevičiūtė), 1972.
G. Olujič. Žvaigždė, kurios krūtinėje kažkas tuksėjo: fairy tale (from Serbian.). – 1988.
I. Asena. Lyrika (from English.). – Vilnius, 1993.
M. Krleža. Elitas. Ponai Glembajevai: play (from Croatian.). – Staged at Lithuanian National theater (directed by I. Buljan), 2006.

A w a r d s :
1972 USSR Writers’ Union award for best articles of the year about native literature in foreign press.
1975 LSSR national award for the book “Romanas ir dabartis”.
1982 Pranas Zibertas literary award for the book “Tik priešas tavo priešams”.
1990 LSSR honorary name of culture activist.
2000 Open Society Fund Lithuania and Lithuanian Writers’ Union award for the best article of the year in cultural press.
2010 Art and Culture Award by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania for books “Barbarai vice versa klasikai“, “Seniausioji lietuvių literatūra” and other works.