Two famous stories by Vladimir Karatkevich. 'The Wild Hunt of King Stakh' is a mystical detective story about an ancient curse and a 'ghost hunt' in the Belarusian wilderness. 'The Gypsy King' is a fairytale adventure story about a nobleman who finds himself in the dark kingdom of the Gypsies.
Book in Belarusian
Vladimir Korotkevich (1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, playwright, screenwriter, and translator; a classic of Belarusian literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was one of the few writers of the Soviet era who managed, through artistic expression, to restore to an entire people a sense of their own history and national dignity.
He was born in Orsha into an intellectual family. He learned to read at the age of three and a half, and wrote his first poems at six.…
