She was sentenced to 25 years of deprivation of liberty by the Soviet regime. In 1956 the poetess was released early, but she has not been rehabilitated yet.
Larysa Heniyush (nee Miklashevich) was born on August 9, 1010 in the country estate of Zhlobavitsy (now Vaukavysk district, Hrodna region). In 1935 she married a student of Charles University Yanka Heniyush and in 1937 she left the country, she set off for Prague to live with him. In 1947 she gained Czech citizenship. In 1948 on the order from Moscow she and her husband were arrested in the town of Vimperk (the Czech Republic) and deported to the Soviet Union. Larysa Heniyush was sentenced to 25 years of deprivation of liberty. She served the sentence in Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, BelaPAN reminds.
In 1956 the spouses were released and returned to the home city of husband, Zelva, where the poetess lives till her death in 1983. During her lifetime some books were published: "Trammeling From Nyoman" (1967) and "Thyme-Infused" (1982), and after her death "White dream" (1990), "Confession" (1993), "Selected Works" (2000) "For You to Know" (2005). The film studio Belarusfilm created a film "Birds without nests" based upon "Confession" (directed by Vitaly Dudzin).
In an interview to BelaPAN a poet Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, leader of "Tell the Truth!" movement, noted: "The official stand towards Larysa Heniyush is negative, as she was very responsible in her life and creative works. She approved herself as a person for whom the national language and culture were a priority in her creative works".
The current Belarusian authorities, as said by Nyaklyaeu, "do not support these values". "They do not want to take interest in the national culture, or in the national language, or national literature. They do not want to study them, they believe they simply do not need that," the poet said.
On August 7 official and informal events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Larysa Heniyush were held in Zelva. The official ceremony was held in the local House of Culture, where representatives of the alternative Union of Belarusian writers headed by Nyaklyaeu were held off. As a result, they were to carry out presentation of the two-volume book by Heniyush on the stairway of the House of Culture.
Representatives of Belarusian intellectuals also visited the grave of the poetess and the house where she lived. A memorial plate had been placed on the house previously, however policemen removed it saying that it had appeared illegally.
Source: Charter'97 :: News from Belarus
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