Ales Rasanau (Алесь Разанаў)
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Poemas

Лясная дарога bielorruso

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Падарунак хроснай маці bielorruso

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Пярэчанне bielorruso

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Бязмежжа bielorruso

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Палёт bielorruso

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Танец з вужакамі bielorruso

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Сербская вёска bielorruso

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Пагарджаны прарок bielorruso

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Цуд bielorruso

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Голас bielorruso

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Пункціры bielorruso

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Пункціры bielorruso

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Ales Rasanau Алесь Разанаў
Author

About

* 05.12.1947, Sjalez, Bielorrusia
† 26.08.2021, Bielorrusia

Ales Rasanaŭ was born on December 5, 1947 in Sjalez, a village close to Brest. Even though he learned Russian in school, Rasanaŭ decided early during his career as a poet to use the more folksy Belorussian as the language of his poetry. This decision later became an issue with the political authorities.

Rasanaŭ studied at the Faculty of Philology in Minsk till he was expelled because of his protest against the Russification policy of the Soviet Union in 1968. Because of the support of a number of known Belorussian authors, he was able to finish his studies at the Pedagogical University in Brest.

In the 1970s and 80s Rasanaŭ worked in a number of jobs, f. e. as a caster, a highschool teacher, a translator, an editor and in the literature editorial offices of various magazines. At the same time his own poetry collection grows.

In 1970 Rasanaŭ’s debut, Adradzennie, can only be published in a heavily censored version due to the repressive political situation in the Soviet Union. His other works were also crudely censored, if published at all.

In 1990 Rasanaŭ is awarded the National Prize for Belorussian Literature. The official acknowledgement of his dedication to the Belorussian language is only short-lived. The regime of Lukashenko turns Rasanaŭ into a dissident once more. In 1999 Rasanaŭ leaves his editoral post with the the magazine Kryniza and starts to accepts scholarships abroad, f. e. in Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden and Slowenia.

Today Rasanaŭ lives as a freelance author and translator in Minsk. He is regarded equally as a poetic authority as well as one of the leading representatives of the Belorussian cultural and literal revival.