Background
BARANOVYKH, Symon was born on September 1, 1900 in village Rudkovo, now Minsk Oblast.
BARANOVYKH, Symon was born on September 1, 1900 in village Rudkovo, now Minsk Oblast.
1931 graduate Department of Literature and Philology, Pedagogical Faculty, Belorussian State University.
From 1913 farmhand; 1920-1923 in Red Army. 1923-1925 village librarian and member, village Soviet. 1925 went to Minsk and joined Maladnyak (Youth) Literature Association.
1928 became member, Belorussian Association of Proletarian Writers. 1927 first works published. Wrote "revolutionary romances” on class struggle during first years of Soviet rule and collectivization of agriculture
Frequently criticized by Party for sympathizing with kulaks and Belorussian natdemocrats. Persecuted for his "nationalist” work Matchyn syn (A Mother’s Son) which was dedicated to Yanka Kupala. 1934 his book Marashmki (Ant-Hills) was taken out of print for the same reason.
1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Member, Belorussian Writers’ Union from 1934.
