[1][2][3][4] As a child, she was very weak and suffered from muscle atrophy, but she eventually regained enough strength to attend school without drawing attention to her health issues.
[2] Vatatsy's childhood health issues returned in her later years, and she also progressively lost her vision, but she continued to work and live an independent life.
She compiled dozens of foundational bibliographies on Belarusian fiction, literary science, criticism, and drama, helping to define and shape the country's national literature.
[1][3][4] 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 [be], Pilip Piestrak [be], Ivan Shamiakin, and Pimen Panchenko [be].
[2][5] 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.