Vasil' Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ -- Other Info, Print and Web

(Васіль Уладзіміравіч Быкаў; name also spelled: Bykov; Vasil' Bykaw)

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Other Information in Print and on the Internet:

• Internet: Vasil' Bykaŭ Web site with his works in English, Belarusian, and Russian: http://bykau.com/     [Note: Link information provided by the   Charter 97   Web site. Some of this English summary about Sp. Bykaŭ on this A Belarus Miscellany Web site is also repeated on the new Web site.]
• Internet: Collection of his Work on the Web: Works of Vasil' Bykaŭ   (in Belarusian, English, Russian, & Ukrainian) on the   Belaruskaja Palichka   Web site.
• Internet: Wikipedia page (in English): Vasil Bykaŭ.
• Article in Print/on Web: "Some Observations on English Translations of [Vasil'] Bykaŭ's Work," by   Zora Kipel, in Zapisy, print edition only, vol. 22 (BINIM, New York, 1996), pages 68-72.
• Text on Web: Bykaŭ and Baradulin: A Creative Literary Friendship by Arnold McMillin.   This lecture was given to the Anglo-Belarusian Society (in London) in 2004.
• In Print: "Vasil Bykaŭ: The Pain of Truth". A chapter in Belarusian Literature in the 1950s and 1960s, pages 205-30; by Arnold McMillan (1999); many other references to Vasil Bykaŭ and his writing occur in this work.
• Article in Print/on Web: Two Interviews with Vasil Bykaŭ by Zina Gimpelevich; University of Waterloo (Canada); from 1995 & 1998. On the BINIM   Zapisy Web site. In print, Zapisy, vol. 23 (New York, 1999), pages 66-93.
• Article in Print/on Web: "The Tradition of "Poor Folk" in Bykaŭ's Recent Short Stories," by Zina Gimpelevich, published in Zapisy, print edition only, vol. 22, pages 59-67 (BINIM, New York, 1996).
• Article in Print/on Web: Foreword to "Picnic/Belarus" written by Vasil Bykaŭ. (September, 2000). "Picnic/Belarus" is by Swedish photographer and journalist Maria Söderberg, and is part of the International photo-exhibition "Distant Illusions" at the National Museum of Art in Mensk, Belarus (September, 2000). Information about the exhibition and Mr. Bykaŭ's essay are on the Vitryssland Web site (Sweden).
• Article in Print/on Web: "Эквівалент: Гістарычнае апавяданьне" by Васiль Быкаў (Zapisy #23 1999). On the BINIM Zapisy Web site (in Windows 1251 font encoding). Also available as a PDF download on kamunikat.org.
• Story in Print/on Web: Карьер ("Кар'ер"; "The Quarry") by Васiль Быкаў. On the Беларуская Палічка Web site (in Russian in Windows 1251 font encoding).
• Story in Print/on Web: Ваўчыная яма by Васiль Быкаў. On the Беларуская Палічка Web site (in Windows 1251 font encoding).
• Article in Print/on Web: Literary Review: "Silenced Voices: Vasyl Bykov"   by Siobhan Dowd (1998).
• Film Adaptation: A film version of Sotnikav (The Ordeal), entitled Voskhozhdenie [The Ascent] was made by Mosfil´m, 1976, and was released on 2 April 1977 (105 minutes; in Russian).
• Story in Print/on Web: "Viewpoint" by Vasil' Bykaŭ on the Belarusian PEN Centre Web site: 'The Epistle of Vasil the Sinner to the Russian Righteous Men'   (written from Frankfurt-on-Main; 27 February 2001)