Yakub Kolas Jakub Kołas . Portrait by A. K. Sapietka Yakub Kolas , Jakub Kołas ( Belarusian : Яку́б Ко́лас , November 3 1882 [ O.S. October 22 ] – August 13 1956 ) , real name Kanstancy Mickievič ( Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч ) was a Belarusian writer , People 's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR ( 1926 ) , and member ( 1928 ) and vice-president ( from 1929 ) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences . He wrote collections of poems Songs of Captivity ( 1908 ) and Songs of Grief ( Песьні-жальбы , 1910 ) , poems A New Land ( Новая зямля , 1923 ) and Simon the Musician ( Сымон-музыка , 1925 ) , stories , and plays . His poem The Fisherman 's Hut ( Рыбакова хата , 1947 ) is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state . His trilogy At a Crossroads ( 1954 ) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia . He was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946 and 1949 .  This article about a European writer or poet is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .  This Belarusian biographical article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Wikimedia Commons has media related to : Yakub Kolas Categories : European writer stubs | Belarusian people stubs | 1882 births | 1956 deaths | Belarusian writers | Belarusian poets In other languages : Беларуская | Русский Яку́б Ко́лас November 3 1882 October 22 Yakub Kolas 