Janka Lučyna, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJanka Lučyna
Belarusian translator and poet (1851-1897)
Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1851
Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
Date of Death: 16-Jul-1897
Profession: poet, translator
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Janka Lučyna
- Jan Niesluchowski (1851, Minsk – 1897, Minsk), better known by his pen name Janka Lucyna (Belarusian: ???? ??????, Yanka Luchyna), was a Belarusian poet who wrote in Belarusian, Polish, and Russian. A son of a minor government official, Niesluchowski graduated from Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology and worked as a railway engineer.
- Because of a leg disease he needed crutches to walk.
- A collection of his Belarusian poems and translations, Viazanka (A Bundle) was published in 1903, several years after his death, earning him a place among the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.
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