Ales Adamovich (1927–1994)
Author of Leningrad belegerde stad 1941-1944
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- Legal name
- Адамові, Алесь (Belarusian)
Адамович, Александр Михайлович (Russian) - Birthdate
- 1927-09-03
- Date of death
- 1994-01-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Belarus
- Birthplace
- Konjuchi, Minsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR, USSR
Minsk Region, Belarus - Place of death
- Moscow, Russia, USSR
- Awards and honors
- Award for Honor and Dignity of Talent (1997 (posthumous), Order of the Red Banner ( 1987), Order of the Patriotic War(1985), Gold Medal of Alexander Fadeyev (1983), Order of the Badge of Honor (1977), Friendship Literary Prize (1972), Partisan Medal (1946)
- Short biography
- Ales Adamovich (1927-1994) was a Belorussian author, literary critic, and screenwriter. He recieved his first degree in mining. During WWII he fought as a partisan; this experience is the basis for his influential novel Khatyn. After WWII he went on to receive this PhD in philology from Belorussian State University and also took graduate courses in directing and screenwriting at the prestigious Moscow film school VKSR.
Adamovich was a professor and a member of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences. He was an active teacher and political figure. As a result of refusing to testify against his colleagues and to sign letters condemning political dissidents he was barred from teaching at Moscow State University. However, he was a member of many public and professional unions. In 1989 he was one of the first writers to join the Belorussian PEN Center, and in 1994 the Center instituted the Ales Adamovich Literary Prize.
Ales Adamovich's writing is still read widely and his legacy continues to be an important milestone in Belorussian history. His fiction and non-fiction make a profound case against the necessity of war, and are a testament to the kind of knowledge and wisdom so needed by humankind today.
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