Author: Krushyna, Ryhor
Title: Lebedz' Chornaia [Black Swan] Signed/Inscribed by Author
Description: S.l. [Munich (?)]: Belaruskae Vydavetstva "Pagonia, 1947. Softcover. First edition; 4 x 5 3/4; pp. 3-62, [2]; beige wraps printed in back; age-toning along margins; thin closed cut along spine with small loss of paper to tips; overall very good-. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. The author, Ryhor Krushyna, was a Belarusian poet, novelist, and critic. After the Revolution he was arrested, released, still harassed, until he would eventually leave Belarus and move to Munich. He spent time in a DP camp (repurposed concentrations camps, SS barracks, etc. in the British, American, and Russian occupation zones after WWII housing refugees). Krushyna emigrated to the US in the late 1940s. In 1951, he was one of the founders of the Belarusian Institute of Science and Art in New York. He would publish several collections of poetry in exile, of which "Black Swan" was his first. Though we have not been able to find a definitive record of "Pagonia" publishing house, it was most probably located in or around a DP (displaced persons) camp in Germany. Ill.: 0. 2.

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