A book exhibition "Kindness and talent” timed to the 80th birthday of Oleg Loyko (1931–2008), the Belarusian writer and literary critic, laureate of Y. Kolas State Prize of Belarus (1990) runs at reading room 205 from 22 April to 9 May.
Oleg Loyko is a scientist of multiple talents who made a great contribution to national poetry, prose, journalism, literary criticism and pedagogy.
The exposition presents Oleg Loyko’s literary heritage: the books of collected poems, the novels-essays about Belarusian classical poet Yanka Kupala and Belarusian first printer Francisk Skoryna, scientific monographs on poets Adam Mickiewicz, Yakub Kolas and Maksim Bogdanovich, scientific studies of the history of Belarusian poetry. The scientist is the author of textbooks, school curriculums, manuals and reading-books, such as the university student manuals “The History of Belarusian Literature before the October Revolution” (pt. I – 1977, pt. II – 1980, 2nd edition, pt. I and II – 1989) and “Old Belarusian Literature” (2001).
Admirer and connoisseur of the world poetry, Oleg Loyko worked much in the field of literary translation. He translated and compiled the book of German poetry of the ХІХ century and the anthology of Polish poetry in two volumes, translated into the Belarusian language selected poems of Paul Verlaine and Johann Goethe, and separate poems of Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and other poets.
Oleg Loyko’s biographers’ books about his life and career are also on display.
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