Uładzimier Niaklajeŭ

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 11 Jul 1946
Activity 1969-ongoing

Places

Born in Belarus
Active in Belarus; Finland; Poland

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Other

Politician
Story-writer
Translator

Resources

Uładzimier Niaklajeŭ is one of Belarus’s outstanding poets whose virtuosity reached a peak in a series of semi-fantastic narrative poems in the 1990s. His later turn to prose included a scandalous novel, Labuch [Jobbing Musician, 2003] and some excellent stories collected in 2009, at the same time as he started writing verse again. His return home from Finland in 2010 brought great attention in the Western press for his fate as a martyr following reckless political activism, forming an opposition party named (in Russian) Govori Pravdu (Speak the Truth), and standing against the authoritarian leader as a candidate for the presidency of his country. His return to verse from successful experiments in prose included an …

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Citation: McMillin, Arnold. "Uładzimier Niaklajeŭ". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 October 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13063, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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