Uładzimir ArłouW
Uładzimir Arłou

Uładzimir Arłou, known as U. A. Arlou is a Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet. He is chairman of the Belarusian PEN International.

Ales BachylaW
Ales Bachyla

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."

Maksim BahdanovičW
Maksim Bahdanovič

Maksim Adamavič Bahdanovič was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature. He is considered as one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.

Francišak BahuševičW
Francišak Bahuševič

Francišak Bahuševič (Belarusian: Францішак Багушэвіч, Polish: Franciszek Bohuszewicz, 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1840 – was a Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer, considered to be one of the initiators of modern Belarusian literature.

Ryhor BaradulinW
Ryhor Baradulin

Ryhor Ivanavič Baradulin was a Belarusian poet, essayist and translator.

Jan BarszczewskiW
Jan Barszczewski

Jan Barszczewski was a Polish-Lithuanian writer, poet and editor. He wrote both in Ruthenian and Polish languages.

Vladimiras BeresniovasW
Vladimiras Beresniovas

Vladimiras Beresniovas, known under his pen name Vlaber (Влабер) is a Lithuanian artist, humorist, poet, and cartoonist. Vlaber has been an active participant in the Lithuanian and world artistic communities for more than 40 years. In the last 10 years, he has illustrated more than 100 books, published weekly cartoons in the local newspapers, and been named to Who's Who in Lithuania in 2008.

Źmitrok BiadulaW
Źmitrok Biadula

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by the pen name Źmitrok Biadula, was a Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer, translator, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement. He is considered one of the fathers of modern Belarusian literature.

Petrus BrovkaW
Petrus Brovka

Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka was a Soviet Belarusian poet, more commonly recognized by his literary pseudonym Petrus Brovka.

Hienadz BuraukinW
Hienadz Buraukin

Hienadz Buraukin was a Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat.

Kuźma ČornyW
Kuźma Čorny

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.

Jan CzeczotW
Jan Czeczot

Jan Czeczot of Ostoja was a Polish romantic poet and ethnographer. Fascinated by the folklore and the traditional folk songs of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a confederal part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he recollected hundreds of them in his works. Inspired by them, he also wrote several poems in what could be considered a pre-modern Belarusian language. As such, he is often cited as one of the first Polish ethnographers and one of the predecessors of the Belarusian national revival.

Uladzimir DuboukaW
Uladzimir Dubouka

Uladzimir Mikalahevič Dubouka was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, linguist, and a literary critic.

Vintsent Dunin-MartsinkyevichW
Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich

Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievič was a Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered as one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school theatre.

Alés HarunW
Alés Harun

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

Nil HilevichW
Nil Hilevich

Nil Hilevich was a Belarusian poet, a professor in the Belarusian State University, the author of more than 80 books of poetry, publications, and translations, and one of the founders of the Frantsishak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society.

Adam HlobusW
Adam Hlobus

Adam Hlobus is a Belarus writer and novelist, essayist, poet, publisher and artist.

Adam HurynowiczW
Adam Hurynowicz

Adam Hilary Kalistavich Hurynowicz was a Belarusian poet and folklorist. He was best known for his Polish, Belarusian and Russian-language poems and folkloristics.

Uładzisłau KazłouskiW
Uładzisłau Kazłouski

Uładzisłau Kazłouski was a Belarusian publicist, publisher, poet, critic journalist, activist and communist politician.

Yakub KolasW
Yakub Kolas

Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

Arkadi KuleshovW
Arkadi Kuleshov

Arkadź Kuliašoǔ, russified form Arkadi Kuleshov was a poet and translator from Belarus. He was best known for his poems, Brigade Flag and Cymbalon, as well as his translations of poetry into Belarusian.

Yanka KupalaW
Yanka Kupala

Yanka Kupala – was the pen name of Iván Daminíkavich Lutsévich, a Belarusian poet and writer. He is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.

Maksim ŁužaninW
Maksim Łužanin

Maksim Łužanin, was a Belarusian prose writer, poet, screenwriter, translator, essayist, and a literary critic. In 1969, he was awarded for the Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR and in 1975, Luzanin was awarded with the honorary badge Meritorious Activist of Culture of People's Republic of Poland.

Valery MarakouW
Valery Marakou

Valery Marakou was a Belarusian poet and translator.

Uladzimir NyaklyayewW
Uladzimir Nyaklyayew

Uladzimir Prakopavich Nyaklyayew born on 11 July 1946 in Smarhon’) is a Belarusian poet and writer, and a former head of the public campaign Tell the Truth!. He was a candidate for 19 December 2010 elections in Belarus, and, according to Amnesty International, was placed under house arrest for his role in post-election protests.

Ales PrudnikauW
Ales Prudnikau

Ales Prudnikau was a Belarusian poet. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Pavel Prudnikau.

Pavel PrudnikauW
Pavel Prudnikau

Pavel Ivanovich Prudnikau was a Belarusian writer. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Ales Prudnikau.

Jazep PuščaW
Jazep Pušča

Jazep Pušča, born Iosif Paulavich Plaščinski, Belarusian: Язэп Пушча / Язэп Паўлавіч Плашчынскі, was a Belarusian poet, writer, critic and translator.

Abraham SutzkeverW
Abraham Sutzkever

Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust."

Symeon of PolotskW
Symeon of Polotsk

Symeon of Polotsk or Symeon Polotsky was an academically-trained Baroque Belarusian-born Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener who laid the groundwork for the development of modern Russian literature.

Władysław SyrokomlaW
Władysław Syrokomla

Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz, better known as Władysław Syrokomla, was a Polish romantic poet, writer and translator working in Vilnius and Vilna Governorate, then Russian Empire.

Maksim TankW
Maksim Tank

Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet journalist, poet and translator.

Anatol VolnyW
Anatol Volny

Anatol' Volny was a Belarusian artist, poet, writer and journalist. During the Great Purge, he became a victim of the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians. Posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.

Vital VoranauW
Vital Voranau

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.

Zmicier ZhylunovichW
Zmicier Zhylunovich

Zmicier Zhylunovich was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny, and a political leader.

Uładzimir ŽyłkaW
Uładzimir Žyłka

Uladzimir Zhylka, was a Belarusian poet.