Ryhor Baradulin
Ryhor Janavič Baradulin (Belarusian: Рыго́р Янавіч Бараду́лін; 24 February 1935 – 2 March 2014) was a Belarusian poet, essayist and translator.
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- Full name
- Рыгор Іванавіч Барадулін.
- Born
- 1935.
- Died
- 2014. · Minsk.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Belarus.
- Occupation
- essayist, translator, writer, poet and literary critic.
- Fields
- verse, narrative poetry, religious poems and essay.
- Movements
- poetry.
- Education
- Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University.
- Honours
- Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the Three Stars, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of Honor, Medal of Francysk Skaryna and The People’s Poet of Belarus.
- Languages
- Belarusian.
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Ryhor Janavič Baradulin (Belarusian: Рыго́р Янавіч Бараду́лін; 24 February 1935 – 2 March 2014) was a Belarusian poet, essayist and translator.
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Ryhor Baradulin (1935–2014) was a children's writer, essayist and literary critic, among other activities and a national of Belarus and the Soviet Union. Born Рыгор Іванавіч Барадулін, the children's writer died in Minsk.
Ryhor Baradulin studied at Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University. The children's writer worked for Belarus, Mastatskaya Litaratura and Polymia, among others and was a member of Belarusian PEN Centre, Belarusian Popular Front and Union of Belarusian Writers. Ryhor Baradulin was associated with poetry.
Genres include essay, narrative poetry and religious poems, among others. Languages used include Belarusian. The children's writer received Medal of Francysk Skaryna, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Order of Honor, among others.
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Ryhor Baradulin studied at Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University. The recorded working language is Belarusian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are verse, narrative poetry, religious poems and essay. Employment is recorded with Sovetskaya Belorussiya – Belarus' Segodnya, Polymia and Belarus. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of the Three Stars, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Order of Honor.
Ryhor Baradulin was born in 1935 in Vierasoŭka, Ushachy Raion, to Ivan and Akulina Baradulin. He graduated from a school in Ushachy in 1954, and continued his education at the Belarusian State University in Minsk, from which he graduated in 1959. Baradulin worked as an editor in various periodicals (including a newspaper, The Soviet Belarus and such magazines as Byarozka and Polymya). He worked in some publishing agencies like Belarus and Mastackaja Litaratura. He was a member of the Belarusian Writer's Union and the Belarusian PEN-center (and was President of the center during 1990–1999), a member of the BPF Party.
Death
Death
Baradulin died in 2014 at the age of 79.
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Life and career
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Ryhor Baradulin born.
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Ryhor Baradulin died at Minsk.
Works and awards
Baradulin was the last Belarusian who received the title of the People's Poet (1992). He received some other important awards for several books of poems and translations. He started publishing his works in 1953. His first poems appeared in the newspaper "Čyrvonaja źmiena". The first book of his poems, "Maładzik nad stepam" appeared in 1959. All in all Ryhor Baradulin published around 70 books of poems (including poems for children, satiric and humorous poems), articles, essays, translations. In 2006, Baradulin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of poems called Ksty.
References ==== External links
References ==== External links
• Official website • Selected poems by Baradulin

Ryhor Baradulin and his fan.
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- 1.Ryhor Baradulin dies | Belarus news ❘ euroradio.fm. euroradio.fm. 3 March 2014.
- 2.Slounik.org.
- 3.Ryhor Baradulin. www.litencyc.com.
- 4.Ryhor Baradulin. timenote.info.
- 5.ABM - Ryhor Baradulin (Rygor Borodulin). Belarus-misc.org.
- 6.Svetlana Aleksievich and Ryhor Baradulin nominated for Nobel Prize. 11 July 2012.
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