On 11 May, at 4 p.m., an exhibition “My Ancestors’ Land. Boris Sachenko…” timed to the 75th birthday of the famous prose writer opens at the art gallery “Labyrinth” (the National Library of Belarus, 3rd floor).
The event organizers – the National Library of Belarus and the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature.
The prolific author’s literary heritage is notable for a variety of themes: he wrote about the past war, countryfolk and his native Polessye.
Boris Sachenko’s best works are “Darogi” (“The Paths”), “Aksana”, “Pamyac” (“Memory”), “Try Apovesti” (“Three Stories”), “Vauchytsa z Chortavaj Yamy” (“She-Wolf from the Devil’s Pit”), “Gorkaya Radast Vyartannya” (“The Bitter Joy of the Return”), “Vechny Krugazvarot” (“The Constant Flow of Life”), “Rodny Kut” (“The Native Land”), the novel “Chuzhoye Neba” (“The Foreign Sky”), the trilogy “Vyaliki Les” (“The Great Wood”). Boris Sachenko is also the prolific translator and the author of children’s books, satirical and humoristic works and critical essays.
The literary-documentary exhibition “My Ancestors’ Land. Boris Sachenko…” reveals the multiple talents of the outstanding prose writer. The exposition includes the rare sources that his daughter Svetlana presented to the museum as a gift. The rare manuscripts, documents, photographs, books, souvenirs and other property from the writer’s archive are first on display.
The event participants: Deputy Director of the National Library of Belarus for Research and Publishing Activity Lyudmila Kiryukhina; the writer’s daughters Svetlana Sachenko and Galina Bogdanova and his nephew Boris Petrovich; poet Anatoly Vertinsky; writer and journalist Anatoly Butevich; poet and editor-in-chief of the magazine “Polymya” Mikola Metlitsky.
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