journalist, researcher, local historian. Uładzisłaŭ Syrakomla (1823–1862), romantic poet, writer and translator. Š Ivan Šamiakin (1921–1984), socialist realist writer. Fabijan Šantyr (1887 - 1920), Belarusian poet, writer and public figure who is regarded as “the first victim of [the Bolsheviks] in…Belarusian politics and literature”. Karłas Šerman (1934–2005), translator. T Maksim Tank (Jaŭhien Skurko) (1912–1995), poet and translator. Kiryła Turaŭski (1130–1182), bishop and saint. Siarhiej Trachimionak (b. 1950), writer, screenwriter. V Lavon Volski (born 1965), musician, writer and painter. Joannis Vislicensis (c. 1485/90–1520), epic poet. References Belarusian Writers