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Yakub Kolas

1882 - 1956

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Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас, November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1882 – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Мицке́вич, Polish: Konstanty Mickiewicz) was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator. People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. In his works, Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry. This was evident in his pen name 'Kolas', meaning 'ear of grain' in Belarusian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yakub Kolas is the 1,084th most popular writer (up from 1,113th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Writer.

Yakub Kolas is most famous for being a Bosnian Muslim who was killed by Bosnian Serbs in the 1990s.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yakub Kolas ranks 1,084 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Wharton, Pierre Louÿs, Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Dubravka Ugrešić. After him are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Harriet Jacobs, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ernst Barlach, and James Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Yakub Kolas ranks 60. Before him are Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, August Kopff, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Yusef of Morocco, Éamon de Valera, and Wacław Sierpiński. After him are Robert Hichens, Pavel Florensky, B. Traven, Petre Dumitrescu, Friedrich Dollmann, and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1956, Yakub Kolas ranks 39. Before him are Walter Sydney Adams, Elisabeth of Romania, Daniel Swarovski, Alfredo Ferrari, Joseph Wirth, and August Kubizek. After him are Jan Łukasiewicz, Gianpiero Combi, Gustave Charpentier, Lyonel Feininger, Juan Negrín, and Marie Laurencin.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Yakub Kolas ranks 27 out of 368. Before him are Ossip Zadkine (1888), Isser Harel (1912), Alexander Parvus (1867), Pavel Sukhoi (1895), Stanislav Shushkevich (1934), and Zhores Alferov (1930). After him are Raphael Lemkin (1900), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Sophia of Minsk (1140), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), Maria Kaczyńska (1942), and Vilna Gaon (1720).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Yakub Kolas ranks 3. Before him are Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), and Yanka Kupala (1882). After him are Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Bella Rosenfeld (1889), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), and Ales Adamovich (1927).

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