Kovalenko, Victor Antonovich

Born July 21, 1929 in a peasant family in the village of Sakovschina, Volozhinsky district, Minsk region, Belarusian SSR .

In 1948 he graduated from Lida Pedagogical College. He taught at the Volunteer seven-year school in the Grodno region. He graduated from the Faculty of Language and Literature Minsk Pedagogical Institute named after M. Gorky (1953). He worked in Svir district as a teacher of language and literature of Syrmezh secondary school, director of the Kemelish secondary school.

In 1959 he defended his thesis for the title of candidate of philological sciences "Dakastrychnitskaya creative work of Zmіtraka Byadulі".

After graduating from graduate school (1958), he was a researcher, in 1982-1997, he was director of the Yanka Kupala Institute of Literature of the Belarusian SSR Academy of Sciences. Corresponding Member, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR. ^[1] .

He studied the process of accelerated development of Belarusian literature, acted as a literary critic.

He has been in print since 1952 as a critic and literary critic. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, including 11 monographs, as well as the novel “Padvyshanae skies” (Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1978).

• Kavalenka, V.A. Poshukі i zdzyayznennі: Creativity Zmіtraka Byadulі / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Dzyarzhaanay of the BSSR, Redaktsy Mastatsky Literature, 1963. - 212 p.
• Cavalenka, V. A. Daver: Literary and indoor artykules / V. A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Belarus, 1967 .-- 259 p.
• Kavalenka, V. A. Golas Chalachaevnastі: Great non-humane matyva ў Belarusian literature / V. A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Navuka i tehnika, 1970 .-- 164 p.
• Kavalenka, V.A. Z pazіtsy sochasnaststs: Agulny pratses literaturnog razvitstsa / V.A. Cavalenka. - 2nd ed., Peper. i dap. - Minsk: Narodnaya asvet, 1982. - 192 p. (1st edition - 1975)
• Cavalenka, V.A. Vytokі. Floats. Pascoranast: Razvitstso Belarus literature XIX — XX stagodzyaў / V. A. Kavalenka. - Minsk: Navuka i tehnika, 1975 .-- 334 p.
• Cavalenka, V.A. Prague Spiritual: Literary and indoor articules / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1975 .-- 254 p.
• Cavalenka, V.A. Prablema, Learn the Belarusan Covered / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Navuka i tehnika, 1977 .-- 192 p.
• Kavalenka, V. A. Living ablichcha zen: Literary and indoor artykuly / V. A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1979. - 303 p.
• Kovalenko, V.A. Ivan Shamyakin: Essay on creativity / V.A. Kovalenko. - Moscow: Soviet writer, 1979. - 269 p. (in Belarusian in 1980)
• Kavalenka, V.A. Myth-paetichnye matyva ў Belarusian Literature / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Navuka i tehnika, 1981. - 320 p.
• Kovalenko, V. A. Common fate and hearts: Belarusian prose about the Great Patriotic War in the context of Russian and other literature / V. A. Kovalenko. - Minsk: Science and Technology, 1985. - 352 p.
• Cavalenka, V.A. Poklich zhytsstia: Literary roofing / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1987. - 230 p.
• Cavalenka, V.A. Velich prades: Selected / V.A. Cavalenka. - Minsk: Mastatsky Literature, 1989 .-- 559 p.

One of the authors and editors of textbooks and monographs “The History of Belarusian Literature” (1964), “The History of Belarusian Literature” (1969), “The History of Soviet Multinational Literature” (1974), “The History of Belarusian Soviet Literature” (1974). He is a co-author of the monograph “Shlyakh razvitstsya belarusiani savetsky prose” (with M. Mushinsky, A. Yaskevich, 1972). He is the author of the report at the VIII International Congress of Slavic Studies “Nekatorya asablіvastsі paўnalnaga voiced by Slavic literatures of the known development” (1973).

• Prize of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1976) for the book “Prague Spiritual”
• State Prize of the Byelorussian SSR named after Yakub Kolas (1980) for participating in the creation of the study “The History of Belarusian Pre-October Literature” and “The History of Belarusian Soviet Literature”
• Francis Skorina Medal (1997), other medals.

• The name of Victor Antonovich Kovalenko is the secondary school of the village of Sakovschina .

• Tychina, M. A. Viktar Antonavich Kavalenka (Yes, 70 years old on the day of the day) / M. A. Tychina // Bulletin of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Humanities Series. - No. 3. - 1999. - C. 136-138. (belor.)
• Booklet of the exhibition “On the 85th anniversary of the academician of the NAS of Belarus V. A. Kovalenko, literary critic, prose writer”

• Academician Viktor Antonovich Kovalenko on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
• Viktor Antonavich Kavalenka in the database “History of Belarusian Science in Faces” of the Central Scientific Library named after J. Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
• The exhibition "On the 85th anniversary of the academician of the NAS of Belarus V. A. Kovalenko, literary critic, prose writer" at the Central Scientific Library named after J. Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus