Writer Petras Gediminas Isokas dies

Petras Gediminas Isokas was born in 1931. February 23 In the town of Baltakarčiai, Utena district. He attended Kušnieriūnai Elementary School, then studied at the Švenčionys Gymnasium. 1949 After graduating from the Vilna Forest Technical School, he worked as a forestry assistant at the Panevėžys and Vilna forest farms.

1952 He moved to Vilnius, where he worked as a forest engineer in Nemenčinė. Since 1957 he worked in the Ministry of Forestry and Forest Industry, at the same time he graduated part-time from the Vilnius University Nature Faculty and acquired the specialty of biologist. In 1970-1975, he worked in the editorial office of the magazine “Mūsų girios” and prepared radio programs. Since 1959 he actively wrote articles, descriptions, stories about nature.

He has published more than thirty books: Parks and forests (journalism, 1959), One hundred mysteries of the forest (prose, 1960), Beasts and beasts (prose, 1964), One hundred botanical riddles (prose, 1968), What hurts here (stories , 1969), Mushroom Carnival (prose, 1970), Where Sphinxes Fly (prose, 1972), One Hundred Mysteries of the Forest (prose, 1976), Forest Bells (prose, 1976), Spring Lights (prose, 1978), In a Strange House (prose, 1979), Gaudžia ragas (prose, 1981), From a source (Stories of Rūdninkų girios, 1982), When the forests cry (prose, 1984), Hexads (prose, 1988), Wälder und Nationalparks in Lithuania – Lithuanian forests and national parks (1994), Giriai Poem (1994), Lithuanian natural monuments (descriptions of natural monuments, 1995), marathon (short story, 1998), lived in Lithuania (descriptions of beasts living in Lithuania, 1998), Kėdainiai Forest History (together with A. Šeržentas, 1999), Vitautas the Great (poem, 1999), Encyclopedic Book of the Forest (2001), A rainbows (poems and poems, 2002), Pulse Forest (natural miniatures, 2002), Gediminas (poem, 2003), Šilėnai (novel, 2005), history of Lithuanian forests and hunting (2006), history of the forests of Kaunas region (together with J. Jermalavičius, 2008), Trakai SFE forest history (together with A. Tervydis, 2008), Nemenčinė SFE forest history (2010), When Earth orbits the circle of the sky (poem, 2010), Calendar of Lithuanian Nature (2013), Speaking from memory (2016); prepared a biographical guide for Lithuanian foresters (1997), compiled the Encyclopedia of the Utena Region (2001).

Since 1998 – Honorary Member of the Lithuanian Forestry Union. Member of the Lithuanian Writers Union, since 1969. For his works in 1978. he received the title of deserving official nature conservation, and in 1995 – Prize for the best books on nature (for “Where to turn the nest”) . 2006 received the Czeslaw Kudaba Award for long-term educational environmental activities. 2009 – Government Culture and Art Award.

Farewell to the writer Petras Gediminas Isokas – Vilnius Funeral Palace (Olandų St. 22) in Hall 1 on Thursday, July 9, 10-12. The urn is removed at 12 noon.