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Ivan Melezh

Died in 1976

Ivan Melezh was born on 8 February 1921 in the village of Hlinishcha, near Khoyniki, into a peasant family. Admitted in 1939 to the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature, he was mobilised in his first year and wounded at the front near Rostov. A graduate in literature of the University of Minsk in 1945, he worked for the journal Polymia, taught Belarusian literature, became in 1966 secretary of the Writers' Union and sat in the Supreme Soviet of the republic. Named People's Writer in 1972, he died in Minsk on 9 August 1976.

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