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Occupation. Writer, dramatist, poet, translator. Nationality. Belarusian. Period. 1906–1956. Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас, November 3 [ O.S. October 22] 1882 – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, Russian ...
Overview. Yakub KOLAS, the classic writer of Belarusian and world literature, one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature and literary Belarusian language. A poet, playwright, prose writer, publicist, translator, teacher, public figure. The real name of Yakub Kolas is Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskevich.
(The Kolas Literary Memorial Museum, the “Personal Archive of Yakub Kolas” Collection) Letter from Kolas to the Russian poet and translator S. Gorodetski with reflections on peoples’ fates and expressing belief in victory over the fascist enemy. Tashkent. 17 August 1941. Autograph of Kolas. Russian.
The Yakub Kolas Square (Belarusian: Плошча Якуба Коласа - Plošča Jakuba Kolasa) is a square in Pershamayski District of Minsk, located on the crossing of Independence Avenue, Yakub Kolas street and Vera Khoruzhaya street.
Archival documents on Yakub Kolas’s life and work Collaboration with figures in Art and Literature Letter from Kolas to the newspaper Nasha Niva requesting for publication of his works.
Aug 13, 2021 · The national poet of Belarus, Yakub Kolas, passed away exactly 65 years ago. His poems "The New Land" and "Simon the Musician" brought him worldwide fame and were included in the golden literature fund. The works of Jakub Kolas have been translated into more than forty languages.
May 19, 2021 · Yakub Kolas' poem The New Land is considered a wise encyclopedia of the Belarusian rural life in the late 19th-early 20th century. Yakub Kolas' wisdom lies in the very view of the world and is embodied in the detailed description of many realities of life.
