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14 October 2004(2004-10-14) (aged 83) Minsk, Belarus
Occupation
writer
Ivan Shamiakin (
Belarusian: Іван Шамякін, 30 January 1921 – 14 October 2004) was a
SovietBelarusian writer, perhaps one of the most prolific of the Soviet
BSSR, writing in a
socialist realist style.
He was born in 1921 in the village of Karma,
Gomel Region,
Belarus, studied construction engineering in a vocational school in 1940, then fought in
World War II, taking part in battles near
Murmansk and in
Poland. After the war he studied at the
Homel Pedagogical University, worked as an editor and had different
Communist Party positions in the local party offices in Belarus.
In 1958 Shamiakin, along with some other Belarusian writers, took part in the anti-
Boris Pasternak campaign.[1] In 1991 he confessed that he had never been familiar with Pasternak and never read Doctor Zhivago, but had followed in the steps of older comrades. Shamiakin also mentioned Pasternak's "typically Jewish cowardice".[2]