Yakub Kolas

Yakub Kolas

Infobox Writer
name = Yakub Kolas
Яку́б Ко́лас


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birthname = Kanstancy Mihajlavič Mickievič
birthdate = OldStyleDate|November 3|1882|October 22
birthplace = Akinchytsy, near Stoŭptsy, Belarus
deathdate = August 13 1956
deathplace = Minsk, Belarus
occupation = Poet and writer
nationality = Belarusian
period = 1906-1956
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Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kołas ( _be. Яку́б Ко́лас, OldStyleDate|November 3|1882|October 22 – August 13 1956), real name Kanstancy Mickievič (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

He wrote collections of poems "Songs of Captivity" (1908) and "Songs of Grief" ( _be. Песьні-жальбы, 1910), poems "A New Land" ( _be. Новая зямля, 1923) and "Simon the Musician" ( _be. Сымон-музыка, 1925), stories, and plays. His poem "The Fisherman's Hut" ( _be. Рыбакова хата, 1947) is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. His trilogy "At a Crossroads" (1954) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. He was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946 and 1949.

External links

* [http://knihi.com/kolas/jak_ptuski-eng.html Yakub Kolas poems translated by R. Lipataŭ] Translation: R. Lipataŭ


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