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Larysa Heniyush

Died in 1983

Larysa Heniyush was born on 9 August 1910 on the Zhlobautsy estate, near Vawkavysk. Having settled in Prague in 1937 with her husband, she published her first collection there in 1942, Ад родных ніў, and in 1943 became general secretary of the government in exile of the Belarusian People's Republic. Arrested in 1948 and sentenced in 1949 to twenty-five years in the camps, she was released in 1956, settled in Zelva and refused Soviet citizenship. She died on 7 April 1983.

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