Background
Ales Prudnikau was born on 14 April in 1910 in a peasant family He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Pavel Prudnikau.
Ales Prudnikau was born on 14 April in 1910 in a peasant family He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Pavel Prudnikau.
Ales studied at school in the village Miloslavicy from 1924 to 1930.
His first verses were published in 1930. In 1932 he wrote a poem "Stars of the Earth" (Belarusian: "Зямныя зоры") that was published as a book where he told about buildings of the First Five-Year Plan. Some of his verses were published in the book "With the Blood of the Heart" (Belarusian: "Крывёю сэрца", 1967).