Venus, or How I Was a Serf Owner (Venera abo Yak Ya Byu Prygonnikam) (in Belarusian)

Ales Adamovich (1927–1994) was a Belarusian writer, scholar, screenwriter, and public figure; one of the major voices of 20th-century antiwar literature. He was a Doctor of Philology, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

He was born in the village of Kanyukhi near Kopyl and spent his childhood in the workers’ settlement of Glusha in the Bobruysk region. The war caught up with him as a teenager: at fourteen, together with his mother and brother, he took part in the anti-fascist underground, and later fought as an ordinary…

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