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Ales Dudar

Died in 1937

Ales Dudar, whose real name was Aliaksandr Dajlidovič, was born in 1904. He was one of the leading figures of the group of young poets Maladniak, whose Polotsk section he founded in 1925. A critic and translator, he rendered major European texts into Belarusian, from drama to poetry. Arrested several times, he saw his books withdrawn from libraries in 1936 and 1937, and was shot in Minsk, in the political police prison, on the night of 29 to 30 October 1937.

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