External Links
- Alfonsas Bukontas discography at Discogs
Alfonsas Bukontas (11 September 1941 – 23 September 2026) was a Lithuanian poet, translator and publicist.
His Jewish parents were killed during the Holocaust and he was saved by the family of Marija and Jeronimas Bukontas, peasants of the Dapšiai village, Mažeikiai district, recognized among the Lithuanian Righteous Among the Nations in 1995. His father was arrested in 1945 and died in a labor camp in 1948. Alfonsas and his mother went into hiding and avoided deportation. His collection of poems Dapšiu kelio zlatvyslės ("Bog Lights of the Dapšiai Road") is a reminiscence associated with the village.
In 1964 he graduated in Lithuanian philology from the Vilnius University. After that he worked as a teacher, in various publishing outlets, and edited some magazines. His poems have been translated in several languages.
Bukontas died on 23 September 2026, at the age of 85.
