Background
He was born in Liepāja, Courland and grew up in the Belarusian village Lebianishki, which is now in Lithuania.
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Ivan Maur
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He graduated from vocational school in Kaunas, then entered a pedagogical school in 1899, but was thrown out for being a member of an underground revolutionary club
Career
Yanka Maur was actually his pseudonym, while his real name was Ivan Mikhailavich Fiodarau (Belarusian: Іва́н Міха́йлавіч Фёдараў). Nevertheless in 1903 he passed all the exams as a non-resident student and became a high school teacher. After that he was arrested and could not work as a teacher anymore.
He could teach again only in 1911, becoming a geography and history teacher in a private school in Minsk.
He was working in many different literary genres: satirical, historical, literature for kids. He is credited with starting the science fiction tradition in the modern Belarusian literature.
His biggest novel is Amok, but his best-selling and perhaps most known book was Palesse Robinsons. Besides writing, he also translated stories into Belarusian from many foreign authors, including Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, and others
Membership
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.
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August 3, 1971 (aged 88) -
Nationality
Russian Empire Soviet Union -
Political Party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union