Danuta Bichel-Sahnetava

Danuta Ivanovna Bichel-Zagnetova (, born 1937) is a Belarusian poet. She is Laureate of the Kupala State Prize of the BSSR for a collection of poems "Where to Walk Barefoot."

Biography Danuta Bichel-Zagnetova was born on December 3, 1937, in Grodno Region, Belarus, then part of the Soviet Union, in a Belarusian peasant family. She graduated from Novogrudok Pedagogical School in 1957, and Grodno Pedagogical Institute in 1962 (Faculty of Philology). Following her graduation, she taught the Belarusian language and literature in Grodno schools.

In 1982, Bichel-Zagnetova headed the House-Museum of Maxim Bogdanovich.

In the late 1980s, she was actively involved in the social movement in Belarus and was one of the organizers of the Maxim Bogdanovich Society. Since 1988, she has been a member of the Belarusian Popular Front. She is also member of the PEN International in Belarus.

In her work, Danuta Bichel-Zagnetova approaches philosophical principles intuitively, through female emotional psychology.

Publications

Books of poetry

Girl's Heart (1961) Neman Goes (1964) Lighters (1967) Share (1972) You are you (1976) Brothers (1979) Where to Walk Barefoot (1983) The Old Sun (1987) In Polesie (1990) God, my God (1992) Sunday (1998) On the White Clouds of Dreams (2002) Selected works (2016) Reach for Kalozha (2017)

Children's books

Quail (1968) Umbrella-Mushroom (1969) Catching up on a horse (1973) Gabrynka and Gabrus (1985) Haradnichanka (1993)

Books of prose

"Come to my voice" (Wroclaw, 2008) "St. Francis Bridge" (Minsk, 2010) "Province of St. Francis" (Grodno, 2010)