A monument to Vasil Bykaŭ was erected in Ushachy, next to a monument to his friend Ryhor Baradulin
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Vasil Bykaŭ
Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.
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culture · Belarusian writer, human rights activist, and politician (1924–2003) · writer · screenwriter · journalist · politician · short story writer · also Vasil Bykaŭ, Vasil Bykov, Vasil Bykav, Vasil’ Bykaw, Bykaŭ
Born 19 June 1924 · Died 22 June 2003 · Q335794
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A memorial plaque to Bykaŭ was unveiled in Minsk
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2003· 1 entry
Died 2003-06-22.
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1980· 1 entry
Was awarded the honorific title of People's Writer of the Byelorussian SSR
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1977· 1 entry
And winner of the Golden Bear award at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival
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1941· 1 entry
Was in Ukraine when Operation Barbarossa began
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-06-19.
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