Vasil Bykaŭ
Vasil Bykaŭ | |
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Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus) | |
| Died | 22 June 2003 (aged 79) Belarus |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Subject | World War II |
| Years active | 1960–2003 |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Service/ | Red Army |
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| Rank | Junior lieutenant |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков; 19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a Belarusian Soviet dissident, junior lieutenant, opposition politician, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.
Life and career
Vasil Bykaŭ was born in the village Byčki, not far from
Bykaŭ's literary achievement lies in his sternly realistic, albeit touched by lyricism, depictions of
Several of Bykaŭ's novellas are available in English, such as "The Dead Feel No Pain" (1965), "The Ordeal" (1970), "Wolf Pack" (1975) and "Sign of Misfortune". However, most of the translations were done on the basis of Russian rendering. Bykaŭ wrote all of his works in his native Belarusian language, and translated several of them into Russian by himself. Vasil Bykaŭ's status in his home country remains enormous. An opponent of Alexander Lukashenko's regime and a supporter of the Belarusian Popular Front, he lived abroad for several years (first in Finland, then in Germany and the Czech Republic), but returned to his homeland a month before his death in 2003. The memory of his turbulent life and uncompromising stance on the war have only enhanced his reputation at home and abroad ever since.
Awards
- Order of the Red Star (1944)
- Jakub Kolas State Prize of the Belarusian SSR (for the story "The Third Rocket", 1964)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1974)
- USSR State Prize (for To Live till Sunrise, 1974)
- Jakub Kolas State Prize of the Belarusian SSR (for the story "Wolf Pack", "His battalion", 1978)
- People's Writer of the Belarusian SSR (1980)
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1984)
- Order of Lenin (1984)
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
- Lenin Prize (for Sign of Misfortune, 1986)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1994)
- Order of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus, 1994)
- San-Valentino International Golden Prize (1998).
List of works
- 1960 – "Crane's Cry" ("Жураўліны крык")
- 1960 – "Knight move" ("Ход канём")
- 1962 – "Third Rocket" ("Трэцяя ракета")
- 1964 – "The Alpine Ballad" ("Альпійская балада")
- 1965 – "One Night" ("Адна ноч")
- 1970 – "The Ordeal" ("Ліквідацыя" ["Liquidation"]; originally published as "Сотнікаў" ["Sotnikov"])
- 1971 – "The Obelisk" ("Абеліск")
- 1973 – "To Live till Sunrise" ("Дажыць да світання")
- 1974 – "Wolf Pack" ("Воўчая зграя")
- 1975 – "His Battalion" ("Яго батальён")
- 1978 – "To Go and not Return" ("Пайсці і не вярнуцца")
- 1983 – "Sign of Misfortune" ("Знак бяды")
- 1989 – "In the Fog" ("У тумане")
- 1997 – "The Wall" ("Сцяна")
- 2003 – "The Long Road Home" ("Доўгая дарога да дому")
See also
- The Wall
- On Black Ice, 1995 film basing on short stories by Vasil Bykaŭ
- In the Fog, 2012 film based on Bykaŭ's 1989 story of the same name
References
- ^ БЫКОВ, Василь (2003). "Долгая дорога домой". Дружба Народов.
- ^ "Согласно легенде Лариса ШЕПИТЬКО рано ушла из жизни, потому что на съемках своего последнего фильма "Матёра" сожгла вековой дуб. Эту картину Лариса Ефимовна снять не успела — ее закончил муж Шепитько Элем Климов". bulvar.com.ua. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ^ Писатели требуют от правительства решительных действий. Izvestia (in Russian). 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
External links
- Vasil Bykaŭ (in Belarusian, Russian, and English)
- Vasil Bykaŭ's works on-line Archived 2005-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Vasil Bykaŭ, 79, Belarusian Novelist // The New York Times
- Vasil Bykaŭ at Find a Grave
- Vasil Bykov Archived 2019-08-17 at the Wayback Machine on the Official Website of the Republic of Belarus Archived 2020-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
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