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Uladzimir Karatkievich

Died in 1984

Uladzimir Karatkievich was born on 26 November 1930 in Orsha. A philology graduate of Kiev University in 1954, he taught in country schools, in the Kiev region and then in Orsha, before attending the higher courses in literature and film in Moscow. A poet, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and translator, he was the first Belarusian writer to practise the historical mystery novel, with King Stakh's Wild Hunt. He died in Minsk on 25 July 1984.

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