Kondrat Krapiva

Kondrat Krapiva studied at Pedagogical Faculty of the Belarusian State University. The recorded working language is Belarusian and Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are satire. Employment is recorded with Polymia, Razdavim fashystskuyu hadzinu and Vozhyk. Positions recorded include member of the Council of the Republic of Belarus and member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR of the 5th convocation. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, USSR State Prize, Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner.

• Name — Kandrat Krapiva • Born — 5 March 1896 • Birthplace — Village Nizok, Minsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 7 January 1991 (aged 94) • Place of death — Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Writer, playwright, poet, translator, critic

Krapiva served in the Tsarist army from 1915, the Red Army from 1920 to 1923, and was involved in the Soviet annexation of Western Belarus in 1939, the Winter War (1939-1940) and the German-Soviet War (1941–45). He began his literary career in 1922, writing fables, poems, narrative poems, and short stories. Among his notable short stories are The Nettle (1925), Fables (1927), Neighbors (1928), and Live Phenomena (1930). He published the novel The Miadzviedzičy in 1932. He was also a notable playwright, writing plays such as The Partisans (1937), a heroic drama, and He Who Laughs Last (1939), a comedy which earned him the Stalin Prize in 1941. Post-war plays include With the People (1948) and People and Devils (1958).