Нина Боттсо

Nina barysaŭna vatatsy ( Беларусианская : Найна -барана -в Атару; 14 мая 1908 г. - 3 августа 1997 г.) была белорусской библиографом и литературным критиком , известной своей работой в качестве главного библиографа в Национальной библиотеке Беларуса с 1945 по 1990 год.

Биография

Нина Вататси родилась в 1908 году в Вендене, провинция Ливланд, которая сейчас является Cēsis , Латвия . Будучи ребенком, она была очень слабой и страдала от атрофии мышц , но в конечном итоге она восстановила достаточно силы, чтобы посещать школу, не обращая внимания на свои проблемы со здоровьем.

После переезда в Минск в 1926 году и окончил Беларусский государственный университет в 1930 году, Она начала свою карьеру в Государственной библиотеке BSSR, которая станет ее жизненной работой.

Она вышла замуж в 1933 году, свадьба Александр Савченко, аспирант. Тем не менее, ее муж считался «врагом людей» и заключен в тюрьму вскоре после их свадьбы. В 1941 году его послали сражаться на фронте во Второй мировой войне ; Он умер там в следующем году. После смерти ее мужа Вататси никогда не вступила в повторный брак и не имела детей.

Проблемы со здоровьем в детстве Вататси вернулись в ее последующие годы, и она также постепенно теряла свое видение, но она продолжала работать и жить независимой жизнью. After retiring from her work at the national library in 1990, she died in 1997 at the age of 89.

Career

Vatatsy is best known for her work as a bibliographer and literary critic. She is considered a central figure in the history of the BSSR State Library, now known as the National Library of Belarus, where she worked for more than half a century.

She first worked at the library from 1930 to 1936, followed by stints at regional libraries in Arkhangelsk, Kirawsk, and Ulyanovsk. During World War II, she ran the library at a hospital in Melekess. After returning to Minsk in 1945, she became the library's chief bibliographer, a position she held until 1990. In those early postwar years, she helped restore the library, which been ransacked and abandoned during the conflict.

From her post at the State Library, she was instrumental in developing Belarus' national literary bibliography. She compiled dozens of foundational bibliographies on Belarusian fiction, literary science, criticism, and drama, helping to define and shape the country's national literature. She also worked to compile and edit books of collected stories, and she was a member of the Union of Belarusian Writers.

Specific authors whose lives and careers she compiled bibliographies for and wrote books and articles on included Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Kuźma Čorny, Kandrat Krapiva, Mikhas Lynkov, Petro Glebka, Pavlyuk Trus, Pilip Piestrak, Ivan Shamiakin, and Pimen Panchenko. She was particularly interested in Maksim Bahdanovič, working to uncover unknown materials on his life and work, and producing several books about the poet, including Maxim's Song (1981) and Roads (1986). The Maksim Bahdanovič Literary Museum in Minsk was based primarily on her work.

Her decades of experience left Vatatsy with a near-encyclopedic memory of Belarusian literary history, and she was frequently called upon as an expert by researchers across the country. She was also one of the highest-level experts in library science in the country at the time of her retirement, and helped train aspiring librarians. In 1963 she was named an Honored Cultural Worker of the BSSR, becoming one of the first librarians to receive this honor.

See also

• Belarusian literature