Lidiya Paramonauna Yalouchych is a poet and a prose writer. Since 1993 she is a member of Belarussian writers’
union.
Background
She was born in a peasant family, which was obliged to migrate because of the imperialistic war. Her father got a job in Orsha. There they went through October’s revolution and the Civil War. She studied 4 years in Orsha. In 1921 her family return home. They were poor and there were 6 daughters in the family. So L. Yalouchyk began to work early.
Currently she lives in Grodno.
Education
She studied in Orsha for 4 years.
She was interested in Polen literature and she read much. She graduated from commercial school in Grodno in 1934. She wanted to be a teacher. She was interested in world’s fiction, philosophy, political economy.
Career
In 1937 she began to teach at elementary school. Arter unification of West and East Belarus, L. Yalouchyk worked at radio in Grodno and as a clerk (1939-40). In 1940 she entered the teachers' training institute in Grodno (department of Russian literature). But suddenly the war started, and she lived with her parents in the village during this war. After Grodno’s liberation from occupation, she worked at the elementary school (Vaukavysk district).She finished her study in the teachers' training institute by correspondence in 1949. Then she worked as a teacher of russian language and literature at high school in Batarouka. Since 1967 she has been on a pension.
She began to write poems from 1936. Her first published work – poem «The Kremlin’s stars» («Kramlyouskiya zorki») in Russian language. It was published in the newspaper «Free Belarus» («Cvabodnaya Belorussia») in september of 1939. From 1958 she is a member of literary association of Grodno regional newspaper. In 1973 her first book «The
Life’s root» («Karenne Zhytstsya») was published. L. Yalouchyk writes about the past, discloses the pictures of her
childhood and youth, tells about Belarussian young people’s life in pre-war and war time in Poland. Lately her works were published in the literary miscellany «My native land - Neman» («Kraju moj – Neman»); in the collection «The day of the poetry» («Den’ paezii») (1986); magazine «Birch» («Byarozka»); newspaper «Grodno’s truth» («Grodenskaya prauda»)».