Ryhor Baradulin

Ryhor Baradulin was born on 24 February 1935 in the hamlet of Verasoŭka, in the Vitebsk region; his father died in the war in 1944. After graduating in philology from the Belarusian State University in 1959, he worked for magazines and then for the publisher Mastatskaya Litaratura, chaired the Belarusian PEN Centre from 1989 and translated Lorca, Khayyam and Pasternak. Winner of the Yanka Kupala State Prize in 1976 and the last to receive the title of People's Poet of Belarus, in 1992, he died in Minsk on 2 March 2014.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryЕвангелле ад МамыRyhor Baradulin · 1995not translated into EnglishLiterature