Yanka Zaprudnik

“Yanka Zaprudnik” is a book from the “People of Emigration” series, launched by the Belarusian Institute of Science and Art and the International Public Organization “Union of Belarusians of the World “Batskaushchyna” in Belarus in 2018.

The book was compiled by Natallia Gordienko, Nadzeya Zaprudnik, Valentina Trygubovich, and Lyavon Yurevich.

The publication contains materials about Yanka Zaprudnik himself: a biographical sketch, memoirs of his daughter Vera, friends and acquaintances, as well as his own texts. The “Research” section presents some parts of Yanka Zaprudnik’s dissertation and his research articles. The “Scripts” section represents individual examples of his journalistic activities on the radio “Liberation / Freedom”, the “Essays” section contains the historian’s most important essayistic texts. The book also contains poems, dedications, epitaphs written by Sergei Yasen (the literary pseudonym of Yanka Zaprudnik), as well as an interview with the figure. The diary of a trip to the USA in 1953 tells a lot about Yanka Zaprudnik himself and his entourage. and various memories of the hero of the book himself. A particularly rich section is the epistolary section, which consists of correspondence with the President of the Belarusian People's Republic Mikola Abramchyk, literary critic and historian Anton Adamovich, friends, relatives and acquaintances both in Belarus, in this country and in emigration. An interview with his wife, Mrs. Nadzeya, was recorded especially for this book after Yanka Zaprudnik's death. The book ends with an extensive bibliography of the historian and journalist.

This book is a tribute of respect and gratitude to a historian, journalist, active public figure, great authority, and sincere Belarusian.