Hienadź Klaŭko was born on December 28, 1931, in the village of Varoničy, which is situated in Puchavičy District, Minsk Voblast, Republic of Belarus.
After graduating from secondary school in 1950, he entered the Faculty of Philology of the Belarusian State University.
From 1963 to 1973 he worked as a regular contributor and senior secretary in a popular Belarusian comic magazine “Vožyk”.
In 1973 Hienadź Klaŭko became the sub-editor of the Belarusian main literary magazine “Połymia” and worked there until his death in 1979.
Hienadź Klaŭko was also a noted translator of North Ossetian poetry into Belarusian, as well as numerous translations of poems of Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, and Russian poets.