Born in 1953, Saulius Tomas Kondrotas emigrated to the West in 1986. During the years of 2001-2004, he worked as a journalist for Radio Free Europe. Since 2004 he has been living in Los Angeles, California (USA). He published three collections of stories, and the novels: “A Glance of the Serpent“ (1981), “And the Faces of Those Glancing through the Window Will Darken“ (1985).
His works have been translated into 20 different languages around the world. Kondrotas’s masterfully composed stories are marked by elements of time and fantasy, as well as intertextuality. He often combines several literary genres, while examining universal questions. Kondrotas is considered the most important representative of magical realism in Lithuanian literature.
