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Belarusian poet
Uladzimir Zhylka
(
Belarusian
:
Уладз?м?р Жылка
; 27 May 1900, in Makaszy near
Nesvizh
,
Russian Empire
? 1 March 1933) was a
Belarusian
poet
.
He was an author of symbolistic love
lyrical poetry
and patriotic-independence related
poems
(
Na rostani
). He translated works of
Adam Mickiewicz
,
Henrik Ibsen
, and
Charles Baudelaire
.
In 1926, he emigrated to
East Belarus
, where he was arrested by the
NKVD
in 1930 as part of the
Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus
and sentenced for 5 years to concentration camps in the
Vyatka
region. He died in 1933.
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