Celebrations of 135th birth anniversary of Belarus’ national poet Yanka Kupala to be international

24 января 2017

By Natalia Bordilovskaya: Celebrations of the 135th anniversary of the birth of Belarus’ national poet Yanka Kupala will include poetry events, theatrical and literary campaigns, exhibitions, searching for new artifacts and discovering the unknown pages of Kupala’s life and work. The celebrations will be international to cover the countries associated with the poet’s biography – Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Slovakia. The Kupala Year centre will be Minsk, where the author spent his mature years and wrote some of his best works.