Hienadz Kliauko

Hienadz Kliauko Belarusian: Генадзь Кляўко
Born	November 28, 1931 village Varonichy, Pukhavichy Raion, Minsk Voblast, Republic of Belarus
Died	August 21, 1979 Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Occupation	Poet and translator
Nationality	Belarusian
Period	1949-1979

Hienadz Kliauko (also: Gennady Klevko, Belarusian: Гена́дзь Кляўко́, Russian: Генна́дий Клевко́) (December 28, 1931 (officially May 1, 1932) – August 21, 1979) was a Soviet Belarusian poet and translator.

Biography

Hienadz Kliauko was born on December 28, 1931 in the village of Varonichi, which is situated in Pukhavichy Raion, Minsk Voblast, Republic of Belarus. After graduating from secondary school in 1950, he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University. After graduation in 1955 he started working for magazines and newspapers. From 1954 to 1963 he was the copy editor in the newspaper “Kalhasnaya prauda”. From 1963 to 1973 he worked as a regular contributor and senior secretary in a popular Belarusian comic magazine “Vozhyk”. In 1964 he became a member of the USSR Union of Writers. In 1973 Hienadz Kliauko became the sub-editor of the Belarusian main literary magazine “Polymya” and worked there until his death in 1979.

Creative activity

The first poem of Hienadz Kliauko was published in 1949. He authored about 10 books of poetry that described homeland and discussed the main events of the time: war and life after the war. Besides, he wrote humorous poems and poems for children. Some of his poems were set to music.

Hienadz Kliauko was also a noted translator of North Ossetian poetry into Belarusian, as well as numerous translations of poems of Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, and Russian poets.

External links

• Hienadz Kliauko poetry in Belarusian Vershy.ru