Yakub Colas
Yakub Colas or Jakub Kołas (in Belorusse Яку́бКо́лас), of its true name Kanstancy Mickievič (Міцке́вічКанстанці́нМіха́йлавіч), is a Belorusse writer born on November 3rd, 1882 ( Oct. 1882) and dead on August 13rd, 1956.
He wrote collections of poems: Songs of Captivity (1908) and Songs of Sadness (Песьні-жальбы, 1910), of the poems the New Earth (Новаязямля, 1923) and Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка, 1925), of the accounts and the plays. Its poem the Hut of the Fisherman (Рыбаковахата, 1947) relates to the combat which followed the meeting of Bélarus with the Soviet State. Its trilogy With a Crossing (1954) is devoted to the life of the farming community bélarusse and democratic intelligentsia before the Revolution.
He was “poet of the people” of the Soviet republic of Bielorussia (1926), member (1928) then vice-president (1929) of the Belorusse Academy of sciences.
He received the Prix Stalin in 1946 and 1949.
Be-X-old: ЯкубКолас
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