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Frantsishak Alyakhnovich was a Belarusian writer, journalist of Szlachta origins.

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Natallia Aliaksiejeŭna Arsieńjeva (1903–1997) was a Belarusian playwright, poet, and translator. She was married to Francišak Kušal.

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Ales Bachyla (1918–1983) was a Belarusian poet and playwright. His verses were generally "memories of the front, daily work of common people, love towards his country and the duty of a citizen, patriotism and portraying nature."

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Kanstancyja Bujło (1893–1986) was a Belarusian poet and playwright.

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Mikałaj Karlavich Ramanavski, known under the pseudonym Kuźma Čorny was a Byelorussian Soviet poet, writer, dramatist, and opinion journalist. He studied at the pedagogue school in Nesvizh from 1916 until 1919. During the 1920s, he worked as a teacher in Slutsk. In 1923, he was working in the faculty of literature and linguistics in the Belarusian State University in Minsk. From 1924 to 1928, he worked as a journalist in a magazine Belaruskaja veska. In 1923, he was a member of a literary organisation Maladniak, and editor of Uzvychch for five years from 1926 until 1931. During the World War II, he lived in Moscow, working in a journal Раздавим фашистскую гадину and Belarus. Then he moved back to Minsk. He died on 22 November 1944, aged 44. He was an author of children's literature.

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Beyle (Berta) Friedberg, best known by the pen names Isabella and Isabella Arkadevna Grinevskaya, was a Russian-Jewish novelist, poet, and dramatist. As a translator, she translated into Russian works from Polish, German, French, Italian, Armenian, and Georgian.

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Alés Harun born as Aljaksandr Uladzimiravič Prušynski was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, dramatist, lyricist and an opinion journalist.

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Kandrat Krapiva was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic. He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in 1971. From 1950 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR. He was a writer for the magazine, "Połymia".

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Andrei Kureichik is a Belarusian screenwriter, playwright, director, and publicist.

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Ivan Shamiakin was a Soviet Belarusian writer, he was perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the Soviet BSSR, writing in a socialist realist style.

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Vital Voranaŭ is a Belarusian-Polish playwright, translator, writer, academic, and poet. He is a co-founder of Belarusian Cultural and Scientific Centre in Poznań and the publishing house Bely Krumkacz. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR and now lives in Poland. He completed his doctorate at Masaryk University in Czech Republic and teaches Irish literature and history of Belarus in Southwestern College in the United States.