On 5 November, a literary educative event ‘Who will be born shall tell the word…’ timed to the 80th birth anniversary of Belarusian writer Vyacheslav Adamchik was held at the gallery Labyrinth.
The event arranged by the National Library of Belarus and the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature started with the opening of an exhibition of books from the Library’s collections. Researchers of Vyacheslav Adamchik’s writing and his closest friends shared their memories about the writer. Among them there were Adam Maldzis, Mikhas Tychyna, Alyes Badak, Victor Shnip, and also the writer’s son Adam Globus.
Director of the Belarusian Radio Oleg Vinyarsky read out Vyacheslav Adamchik’s short story dedicated to his mother. According to Adam Globus his father especially loved it.
’Adamchik knew how to puzzle and surprise the reader. He’d never erred by citing and always felt it was necessary to know more. Mastering his skill of a writer he followed the example of Dostoevsky and Bunin’, Mikhas Tychyna said.
’The exhibition about the writer’s work is open till 30 November so that everyone will have an opportunity to come, to bring here their friends and touch the heritage of our outstanding compatriot’ First Deputy Director of the National Library of Belarus Elena Dolgopolova emphasized.
At the end of the event the writer’s son donated to the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature copybooks and photos of Vyacheslav Adamchik as well as some pens which the writer collected. Every guest got the writer’s books The Immovable Stone, his last collection of short stories.
Vyacheslav Adamchik is one of the most outstanding modern writers of Belarus and winner of the Literary Prize named after I. Melezh and the BSSR State Prize named after Yakub Kolas. He belongs to the generation of so called ‘men of the sixties’.
The writer’s literary career started in 1952 when his verse Shpaki (Starlings) appeared in a local newspaper. The very first publications by Vyacheslav Adamchik manifested the arrival of a new master of the literary word. In 1957 his prose was first published. A tetralogy dedicated to people’s life in Western Belarus in the period of the Second Polish Republic, in the first years of the Soviet Power and during Nazi occupation is the writer’s best creative achievement. It includes novels Foreign Motherland (1978), Year Zero (1983), Who Will Be Born Shall Tell The Word (1987), The Voice Of Your Brother’s Blood (1990).
The result of the writer’s long-term creative work is numerous collections of prose, some novels and scripts and a theatrical play. The writer also translated into Belarusian a collection of Bulgarian fairytales and some works by Russian writers M. Prishvin, Y. Kazakov, S. Zalygin and others.
Vyacheslav Adamchik died in 2001 when he was only 67. Though the writer’s life interrupted his literary heritage still captivates the reader.
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