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• TaleNobleman Zavalnia, or Belarus in Fantastical TalesSzlachcic ZawalniaJan Barszczewski · 1844Tales of popular terror from northern Belarus, told at the evening gathering by passing guests, in a Polish steeped in peasant beliefs.Literature
• PoetryДудка беларускаяFrancishak Bahushevich · 1891not translated into EnglishPeasant verses printed in Kraków, outside the empire of the tsars, in the last years of the nineteenth century.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryХрэст на свабодуAlaiza Pashkevich (Tsiotka) · 1906not translated into EnglishCombative verses printed in exile, when the Russian Empire was barely emerging from the year 1905.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryВянокMaksim Bahdanovich · 1914not translated into EnglishThe only book published in its author's lifetime, who was brought up in Russia, far from the country whose language he wrote in.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreПінская шляхтаVincent Dunin-Marcinkievich · 1918not translated into EnglishA one-act farce on the vanity of the petty nobles of Polesia and the venality of the tsars' justice.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeTwo SoulsДзве душыMaksim Haretski · 1919An officer who discovers his peasant origins, amid the camps of the civil war.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelСокі цаліныTsishka Hartny · 1922not translated into EnglishA worker's path towards revolution, through the Great War as seen from Belarus.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryБосыя на вогнішчыMihas Charot · 1922not translated into EnglishThe revolution seen as a blaze into which the poor throw themselves, in the Belarus of the occupations.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryНовая зямляYakub Kolas · 1923not translated into EnglishA family of foresters in search of a field of their own, in Belarus before 1900.Literature
• TheatreThe LocalsТутэйшыяYanka Kupala · 1924An opportunist who changes his coat with every occupation, in the Minsk of the civil war years.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryО Беларусь, мая шыпшынаUladzimir Dubouka · 1925not translated into EnglishA short lyric poem of 1925, in which a wild flower stands in for the homeland, in the young Soviet Belarusian republic.Literature
• NarrativeСалавейZmitrok Biadulia · 1927not translated into EnglishA young serf gifted at imitating birdsong, taken into his master's private theatre.Literature
• NovelСястраKuzma Chorny · 1927not translated into EnglishIn Minsk, characters in search of a meaning for their lives, caught above all in their thoughts.Literature
• PoetryВежаAles Dudar · 1928not translated into EnglishAn old tower laden with legends, which the radio turns into a relay for distant voices: a poem of the new era.Literature
• Feature filmKastus KalinovskiyКастусь КалиновскийVladimir Gardin · 1928An uprising in which peasants and lords fight side by side without pursuing the same goal.Cinema
• PoetryНарачMaksim Tank · 1937not translated into EnglishA lake forbidden to those who lived from it, and fishermen who take their boats out again despite the police and the owner.Literature
• Feature filmThe Secret BrigadeКонстантин ЗаслоновAleksandr Faintsimmer · 1949A railway depot under the German occupation, where a railwayman secretly leads the sabotage.Cinema
• NovelВойна под крышамиAles Adamovich · 1960not translated into EnglishA town in occupied Belarus, where ordinary families choose between submission and resistance.Literature
• NovelPeople of the MarshЛюдзі на балоцеIvan Melezh · 1962A village lost in the Polesian marshes after the revolution, amid the division of land, amorous rivalries and the first great public works.Literature
• Feature filmBelovedЛюбимаяRichard Viktorov · 1965A young woman just out of school chooses the building site, between two boys, in a capital under construction.Cinema
• NovelКаласы пад сярпом тваімUladzimir Karatkievich · 1965not translated into EnglishA young Belarusian aristocrat on the eve of the uprising against the tsar: Uladzimir Karatkievich's great historical fresco.Literature
• Feature filmThe City of MastersГород мастеровVladimir Bychkov · 1966A city of craftsmen enslaved by an occupier, where the humblest of its inhabitants is destined to free it.Cinema
• NovelThe OrdealСотнікаўVasil Bykau · 1970Two partisans who have fallen into the hands of the auxiliary police, facing a choice between life and loyalty.Literature
• Feature filmЯ, Франциск Скорина…Boris Stepanov · 1970A young Belarusian of the sixteenth century who became a scholar and printer, between Kraków and Prague.Cinema
• CinemaThe Adventures of BuratinoПриключения БуратиноLeonid Nechayev · 1976A puppet tale turned into a musical comedy for television, with children in the roles of the marionettes.Cinema
• Feature filmThe Savage Hunt of King StakhДзікае паляванне караля СтахаValeri Rubinchik · 1980A legend of a phantom hunt and a haunted manor, in the marshes of Polesia at the end of the nineteenth century.Cinema
• ComedyWhite DewБелые росыIgor Dobrolyubov · 1983A village doomed to demolition, whose inhabitants are about to become city dwellers, seen through a family of peasants.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Unwomanly Face of WarУ войны не женское лицоSvetlana Alexievich · 1985The Second World War told by the women who fought it, whose accounts were gathered in the early eighties.Literature
• Feature filmSign of DisasterЗнак бядыMikhail Ptashuk · 1987Under the German occupation, an elderly peasant couple faces neighbours who have become policemen.Cinema
• NarrativeСповедзьLarysa Heniyush · 1993not translated into EnglishA Belarusian poet facing Soviet interrogation and the camps: a first-person testimony.Literature
• PoetryЕвангелле ад МамыRyhor Baradulin · 1995not translated into EnglishThe book a great Belarusian poet devoted to his mother, an illiterate peasant woman who had given him his language.Literature

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