Ivan Melezh
Ivan Melezh (Belarusian: Іван Паўлавіч Мележ, Russian: Ива́н Па́влович Ме́леж ; 8 February 1921, Hlinischy, Homiel Voblast — August 9, 1976, Minsk) was a Belarusian writer.
He wrote prose fiction and drama. People's Writer of Belarus, 1972, numerous prizes, e.g. Lenin prize for novels People of the Marsh («Людзі на балоце») and The Storm's Breath («Подых навальніцы»).
The central place in Melezh's work is made up by novels of the trilogy Polesye Chronicle («Палеская хроніка»): People of the Marsh, The Storm's Breath and Snowstorm in December («Завеі, снежань»). These novels portray the life in writer's native place in 1920s and 1930s: the establishment of socialism, forced collectivization, 'de-kulakization'. Melezh depicted truthfully the historical coloring of this era.
Novels
- «Мінскі напрамак» (The Minsk Line of Advance)(1952/1974)
- «Палеская хроніка» (Polesie Chronicles):
- «Людзі на балоце» (1962)
- «Подых навальніцы» (1966)
- «Завеі, снежань» (1978)
Films based on Melezh's works
- «Дыхание грозы» (1981, film director Viktor Turov)
- «Люди на болоте» (1981, film director Viktor Turov)
External links
- (English) A short overview
- (Belarusian) Some of Melezh's works online
- (Russian) Ivan Melezh: Writer versus Time
- (Russian) Ivan Melezh virtual museum