Ryhor Baradulin

Arnold McMillin (University College London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

Born 24 Feb 1935
Died 2 Mar 2014
Activity 1953-2014

Places

Born in Belarus
Active in Belarus

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Translator

Resources

Baradulin's Works

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Ryhor Baradulin, Belarus’s National Poet, was remarkable for the fecundity of his wit and imagination, his complex vocabulary, rich in rare words and neologisms, and his memorably vivid imagery. An extremely broad poet thematically and formally, his cycle of epistolary poems to his exiled friend Vasil Bykaǔ in 2000 formed an emotional and philosophical high watermark in his expressive lyricism. In later years he turned mainly, but not exclusively, to religious verse.

Baradulin was born on 24 February 1935 into a worker’s family on the Vierasoǔka farm in Vušača district of the Belarusian region of Viciebsk. In 1959 he graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Belarusian State University. He worked on the editorial boards of several newspapers and journals, the main one being

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Citation: McMillin, Arnold. "Ryhor Baradulin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 October 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13062, accessed 25 November 2024.]