Yanka Bryl
8/4/1917 - 7/25/2006
Collection of "Stories" (1946)
"Green School", "Sticky and Gingerbread", "September Winter" (1949)
Beginning of Maturity (1957)
Continuation of the conversation (1962)
Hazel of bread (1977)
Today and memory (1985)
August 3, 1917
Birth
Born in Odessa in the family of a railwayman
August 3, 19171922
Moving
Together with his parents, he moved to their homeland in Western Belarus (village Zagora (Zagorye) of Korelichi district Grodno region, at that time - Poland).
19221931-1938
Education
He graduated from the Polish seven-year school, entered the gymnasium, but could not study in it because of material difficulties, engaged in self-education.
1931-19381938
First publications
He published poems and journalism in the Vilnius Belarusian magazine "Shlyakh Moladzi" ("The Way of Youth").
19381939 - 1945
World War II
In 1939, drafted into the Polish army, served in the marine corps. In September 1939 he fell near Gdynia in German captivity, fled in the fall of 1941 and returned to his homeland; joined the Soviet partisans. From October 1942 - a connected partisan brigade named after Zhukov, from March to July 1944 - a partisan reconnaissance brigade "Komsomolets", editor of the newspaper "Scag Svaboda" ("Banner of Freedom", the body of the Mir underground district committee VKP (b)) and the satirical leaflet "Partyzanske burned" ("Partisan sting"). Since October 1944 he lived in Minsk, he worked in the editorial board of the newspaper-poster "I will crush the fascist gadzin" ("Crush the fascist reptile"), the magazines "Wozyk" ("Hedgehog"), "Maladosts" ("Youth"), "Polymya" ("Flame"), and at the State Publishing House Belorussian SSR.
1939 - 19451945-2006
Social and Political Activities
Since 1945, a member of the joint venture of the USSR. In 1966-1971 - Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the Belarusian SSR. Twice elected Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Belarusian SSR (1963-1967, 1980-1985). Chairman of the Belarusian Branch USSR-Canada Society (1967-1990), member of the Belarusian PEN Center since 1989. Honorary member of the National Academy Sciences of Belarus (1994).
1945-2006July 26, 2006
Death
Janka Bryl died on July 25, 2006. He was buried in Kolodishchi.
July 26, 2006