Yakub Kolas
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Yakub Kolas was a major Belarusian writer who lived from 1882 to 1956 and played an important role in the development of Belarusian literature and culture. His works are significant to Belarusian identity and literary history, particularly during a period when the Belarusian language and culture were establishing themselves as distinct.
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Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас, 3 November [O.S. 22 October] 1882 – 13 August 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Мицке́вич, Polish: Konstanty Mickiewicz) was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator. People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
In his works, Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry. This was evident in his pen name 'Kolas', meaning 'ear of grain' in Belarusian. He wrote collections of poems Songs of Captivity (Russian: Песни неволи, 1908) and Songs of Grief (Belarusian: Песьні-жальбы, 1910), poems A New Land (Belarusian: Новая зямля, 1923) and Simon the Musician (Belarusian: Сымон-музыка, 1925), stories, and plays. His poem The Fisherman's Hut (Belarusian: Рыбакова хата, 1947) is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. His trilogy At a Crossroads (Russian: На перепутье, 1925) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 and 1949.
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1882 births1956 deaths20th-century Belarusian writers20th-century pseudonymous writersAcademicians of the Byelorussian SSR Academy of SciencesBelarusian dramatists and playwrightsBelarusian-language writersBelarusian male poetsBelarusian male writersBelarusian translatorsBiography articles needing translation from Belarusian WikipediaFourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union