Kandrat Krapiva (Belarusian: Кандра́т Крапіва́, 5 March 1896 – 7 January 1991) was a Soviet and Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic.

From 1950 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR.

[1] Krapiva served in the Tsarist army from 1915, the Red Army from 1920 to 1923, and was involved in the Soviet annexation of Western Belarus in 1939, the Winter War (1939-1940) and the German-Soviet War (1941–45).

Among his notable short stories are The Nettle (1925), Fables (1927), Neighbors (1928), and Live Phenomena (1930).

He was also a notable playwright, writing plays such as The Partisans (1937), a heroic drama, and He Who Laughs Last (1939), a comedy which earned him the Stalin Prize in 1941.