Vladimir Korotkevich

 Vladimir Korotkevich is a well-known Belarusian writer. We know him as the author of historical novels, plays and also short stories.

He was born in 1930 in Orsha. He studied at Kiev University and took a literary course in Moscow. Korotkevich was also a poet. He published his first poem in 1955. But his main interest was the history of Belarus. Among Korotkevich's best works about the past of Belarus were the novel Old Legend, the novel The Black Castle of Olshany and also his novel about Kastus Kalinovsky and the uprising of 1863. The writer often described historic events in the form of detective stories. You can see it in his novels The Wild Hunt of King Stakh, Impossible to Forget and some others.

V. Korotkevich's book The Land Beneath White Wings is about the history and culture of Belarus from old times to today. Every line of this novel speaks of the author's love for his motherland, its people and its beautiful nature. In his books he used lines from the poems of other poets to describe the beauty of Belarus. He wrote many short stories which are full of poetry, beauty and love of nature.

Plays by V. Korotkevich are staged at the theatres of Minsk, Vitebsk and other cities and towns of Belarus. There are several films made on his novels. We may think that the best of them is The Wild Hunt of King Stakh. It took part in many film festivals.

Vladimir Korotkevich was the winner of the Ivan Melezh and Yakub Kolas literary prizes in Belarus. There are translations of his books in many languages.

He died in 1984 at the age of 54. His books are popular today not only in Belarus, because they are romantic, full of beauty and justice and they are very interesting to read.