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Ivan Melezh
Belarusian writer

Ivan Melezh

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Belarusian writer
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Hlinishcha, Belarus
Place of death
Minsk, Belarus
Age
55 years
Education
Philological faculty of BSU
Awards
Order of the Badge of Honour
 
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
 
Order of the Red Star
 
Lenin Prize
 
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Biography

Ivan Melezh (Belarusian: Іван Паўлавіч Мележ; 8 February 1921, Hlinischy, Homiel Voblast — August 9, 1976, Minsk) was a Belarusian writer of fiction and drama.

Biography

He was born to a peasant family. In 1939, he entered the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature [ru], but was there for only a year when he was drafted into the Red Army and served on the front in the Odessa and Rostov-on-Don areas. He was seriously injured in 1942 and was moved to the rear following his recovery.

Initially, he lived in Buguruslan, then studied at Baku State University. He later taught Belarusian literature at Belarusan State University in Minsk. From 1945, he was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, serving as Secretary after 1966 and Deputy Chairman from 1971 to 1974. From 1967 to 1976, he was a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet.

He was designated a People's Writer of the Belarusian SSR in 1972 and was awarded numerous prizes, including the Lenin prize for his novels People of the Marsh («Людзі на балоце») and The Storm's Breath («Подых навальніцы»).

The central place in Melezh's work is made up by the novels of the Polesye Chronicle («Палеская хроніка»): People of the Marsh, The Storm's Breath and Snowstorm in December («Завеі, снежань»). These novels portray the life in his homeland in the 1920s and 1930s: the establishment of socialism, forced collectivization, and dekulakization. Melezh attemptedto depict the history of this era truthfully, within the constraints imposed by the Soviet regime.

Novels

  • «Мінскі напрамак» (The Minsk Line of Advance)(1952/1974)
  • «Палеская хроніка» (Polesie Chronicles):
    • «Людзі на балоце» (1962)
    • «Подых навальніцы» (1966)
    • «Завеі, снежань» (1978)

Films based on Melezh's works

  • «Дыхание грозы» (1981, directed by Viktor Turov [be])
  • «Люди на болоте» (1981, directed by Viktor Turov)
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