Radkevich Yaugen Rygoravich (born 3.10.1937 town Syanno, Vitebsk region), prose writer, Candidate of Historical Sciences (1974), associate professor (1979). He’s the member of Belarusian Writer’s Union since 1975. He writes in Belarusian und Russian languages.
Background
He was born in teacher’s family. His father worked as a director of an orphanage
in Zaazerye village and his mother worked as an educator. During the Great
Patriotic war they were in a guerrilla group and his father died in 1942. After
the war his mother worked in the orphanage again. Radkevich left Stsyapyanskaya
School in 1954 which was not far from Minsk.
Education
He had entered the Institute of National Economy but left it in a short time and went to Kazakhstan to the virgin lands. He studied there in Ustskamengorsky College of Agriculture (1955 –56), then he worked as a tractor driver and a combine operator in the state farm, Pauladarsky region. (1956 – 57). Then he moved to Grodno region where his mother worked and there he got a job of a Senior Pioneer organizer in an orphanage in Parechya. In 1958 he entered the Department of Journalism at Belarusian State University.
Career
From 1960 without the cessation of his education he worked on Belarusian radio, he was an editor, and after the graduation of the University (1963) he was a senior editor. He was in charge of
the editorial staff of the youth newspaper “Minsk Truth” (1970 – 71). He was a
postgraduate student of the department of Radio and Television in BSU (1971
–74). Since 1974 he had been a senior lecturer, since 1978 – the Head of the Department
of Television and Radio Broadcasting of BSU. He was decorated with a medal and
the Diploma of the Supreme Council of BSSR. He made his debut in 1958 by
poetry. He published his first story in 1966. He’s the author of the collection
of short stories and narratives “Raftsmen”, “Low Water Month”, “Mountain Honey”,
narratives “Antanina”, “Walk through the Galaxy”, and the novel “The Confluence
of Days”. In his works he raises moral and ethical problems; he reveals an
inner world and the development of a contemporary. The novel “The Law of
Attraction” is dedicated to P. M. Lepyashynsky. He writes essays, articles
about the formation and development of the Belarusian Radio, Television. Writer's
works have been translated into Russian and Ukrainian languages.
He lives in Minsk.
He was decorated with a medal and the Diploma of the Supreme Council of BSSR.