Uladzimir Karyzna ( be, Уладзімір Іванавіч Карызна, russian: Владимир Иванович Каризна; born 25 May 1938) is a poet from
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
. Karyzna co-wrote the lyrics of the current
national anthem
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of Belarus, ''
My Belarusy
The "State Anthem of the Republic of Belarus" ( be, Дзяржаўны гімн Рэспублікі Беларусь ), better known as "" (; "We, Belarusians"), is the national anthem of Belarus. It was originally written in the 1940s and adopt ...
''.
Biography
Karyzna was born on 25 May 1938 in Zakruzhka,
Minsk District. He finished the Belarusian state university in the name of
Vladimir Lenin
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(1961), and worked as a teacher of the
Belarusian and
Russian
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languages and literature in a village school in Opsa,
Braslaw District
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of the
Vitsebsk Region
Vitebsk Region or Vitebsk Oblast or Viciebsk Voblasts ( be, Ві́цебская во́бласць, ''Viciebskaja voblasć'', ; rus, Ви́тебская о́бласть, Vitebskaya oblast, ˈvʲitʲɪpskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a region (oblast ...
. During this time, Karyzna headed literary association in the regional newspaper ''Braslaw star''.
In 1967, he became an employee of Republican radio, where he worked for 13 years as an editor, senior editor, and in the head division of Belarusian music. He was an editor of the division of knowledge and arts in the magazine ''Polimya'' (1980–1981), senior editor, head of the editing of the edition ''Youth'' (1981–2001), and deputy of the main editor in the edition ''Well'' (2002).
Works and activity
Karyzna is the author of more than 200 songs, written in sponsorship with well-known Belarusian composers. He is the author of the hymn of
Nesvizh
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and co-wrote the lyrics of the
Belarusian national anthem. Karyzna is a member of the Union of Writers of Belarus, the commission of support to youth, the commission of state prizes, a judge of the competition ''energetica'', a judge of the Republican Youth Singing competition, a representative of the commission for prizes for trade unions, and a delegate of the 3rd
National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus
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.
Awards
Karyzna is a laureate of the state prize of the Republic of Belarus (1996), the prize of trade unions of the Belarusian SSR (1991). He was awarded with the Certificate of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR, the Certificate of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR, and the Order of Francysk Skaryna.
External links
InterviewInterview with KaryznaInfo on Minsk region's government site
1938 births
Living people
Belarusian writers
Belarusian composers
National anthem writers
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