From March 3, 2008, to March 31, 2008, in the Belarusian Literature Reading Room (room 205) is open an exhibition “Prose Writer, Researcher, and Translator” dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of Yanka (Ivan Zakharovich) Sharakhovsky, the Belarusian writer and literary critic.
Yanka Sharakhovsky is a talented writer remarkable for his brilliant identity, great erudition, and fidelity to principle. Being a literary critic, he not only described merits and demerits of literary works, but also aspired to analyze works by one or another writer as a whole.
The literary heritage by Yanka Sharakhovsky are collected stories “Silver Morning” (1951), "The Duty is Done” (1978), and children’s book “Cornelian Bay” (1955).
Yanka Sharakhovsky is the author of a monograph “The Minstrel of People’s Thoughts” in two volumes (1970, 1976) dedicated to Yanka Kupala, the eminent Belarusian poet. Besides that, Yanka Sharakhovsky studied life and career of such Belarusian authors as: Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, Frantishek Bogushevich, V.Tavlay, F. Pestrak, and V. Koval.
A particular section of the exhibition acquaints visitors with works by Russian and Ukrainian writers translated by Yanka Sharakhovsky into Belarusian language, among them: I.Turgenev, M. Bubennov, A. Perventsev, P. Fyodorov, M. Sholokhov, Saltykov-Schedrin, F. Gladkov, and others.
At the exhibition are as well displayed materials on Yanka Sharakhovsky’s life and career.
Contact: + 375 17 293-27-16
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